Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Maritime "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Maritime
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Maritime Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Maritime
"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maritime You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Maritime
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Maritime People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Maritime
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Maritime We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Maritime
"The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Maritime Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Maritime
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 Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Maritime Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Maritime
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn 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 "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Maritime Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Maritime
Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "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) Maritime There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Maritime
It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Maritime What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Maritime
Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Maritime Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "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) There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Maritime
