He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Fishing Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Fishing
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Fishing I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Fishing Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Fishing
The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Fishing Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Fishing
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 If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Fishing Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu 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 Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Fishing
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Fishing The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Fishing
"One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Fishing Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Fishing
My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Fishing This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Fishing
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Fishing The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Fishing
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Fishing "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Fishing
Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Fishing "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Fishing
