"The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Fish When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Fish
Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Fish "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Fish
"To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Fish Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Fish
"Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Fish "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Fish
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Fish "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Fish
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Fish Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Fish
The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Fish The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Fish
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Fish He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Fish
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Fish One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Fish
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Fish This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Fish
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Fish Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Fish
