"Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Climbing "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Climbing
Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Climbing "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "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) Climbing
Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Climbing Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Climbing
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Climbing The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Climbing
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Climbing Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Climbing
What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "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." Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Climbing Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Climbing
"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story 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 Unhappy "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Climbing Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Climbing
If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Climbing "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Climbing
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Climbing Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Climbing
All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Climbing I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Climbing
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Climbing "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Climbing
