It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Amateur Radio Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Amateur Radio
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Amateur Radio "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Amateur Radio
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Amateur Radio The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Amateur Radio
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Amateur Radio Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Amateur Radio
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Amateur Radio The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Amateur Radio
There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Amateur Radio Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Amateur Radio
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Amateur Radio "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Amateur Radio
People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Amateur Radio "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Amateur Radio
"A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Amateur Radio Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Amateur Radio
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Amateur Radio Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Amateur Radio
"A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Amateur Radio "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Amateur Radio
