Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Boating Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Boating
Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long 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. Boating They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Boating
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Boating However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Boating
It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Boating You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Boating
Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Boating You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Boating
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Boating An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Boating
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Boating All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Boating
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Boating "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) A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Boating
The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Boating "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Boating
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein "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" It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Boating My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner "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) Boating
Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Boating All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Boating
