If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Fishing "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Fishing
Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Fishing Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Fishing
The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Fishing An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Fishing
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra 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 "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Fishing Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Fishing
Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Fishing Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Fishing
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Fishing The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Fishing
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Fishing He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller "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) Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Fishing
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Fishing It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Fishing
The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Fishing Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Fishing
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Fishing 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 A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Fishing
There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Fishing Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Fishing
