Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words 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 It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Boating There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Boating
"Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Boating I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Boating
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Boating Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Boating
Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Boating "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Boating
"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Boating If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Boating
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Boating Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) 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 Boating
"The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Boating "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Boating
"I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Boating Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Boating
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Boating "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Boating
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Boating The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Boating
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short 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 Boating "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Boating
