The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Swimming and Diving Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway 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 "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Swimming and Diving
"Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Swimming and Diving "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Swimming and Diving
Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Swimming and Diving Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Swimming and Diving
Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) 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 Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Swimming and Diving "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Swimming and Diving
In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Swimming and Diving "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Swimming and Diving
You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Swimming and Diving Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Swimming and Diving
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Swimming and Diving I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "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) Swimming and Diving
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) May you never leave your marriage alive. Swimming and Diving Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons 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 I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Swimming and Diving
"I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Swimming and Diving I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Swimming and Diving
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Swimming and Diving Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous 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 Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Swimming and Diving
"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 If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Swimming and Diving Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Swimming and Diving
