Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Hockey The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Hockey
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Hockey "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Hockey
I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Hockey "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Hockey
People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Hockey Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Hockey
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Hockey 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Hockey
"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Hockey "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Hockey
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Hockey The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Hockey
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Hockey Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Hockey
Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Hockey "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Hockey
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Hockey Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Hockey
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Hockey "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Hockey
