May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Kaiserslautern "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Kaiserslautern
Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Kaiserslautern "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Kaiserslautern
"I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Kaiserslautern To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Kaiserslautern
This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) 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 The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Kaiserslautern "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Kaiserslautern
Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Kaiserslautern "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Kaiserslautern
Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Kaiserslautern Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Kaiserslautern
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Kaiserslautern The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Kaiserslautern
God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "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) Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Kaiserslautern After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Kaiserslautern
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Kaiserslautern You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Kaiserslautern
"Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) 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 You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Kaiserslautern A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Kaiserslautern
Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Kaiserslautern The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Kaiserslautern
