"It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Outdoors Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Outdoors
"The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Outdoors Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal 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 For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Outdoors
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 I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Outdoors The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Outdoors
Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Outdoors They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Outdoors
I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Outdoors "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Outdoors
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Outdoors I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Outdoors
"To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Outdoors "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Outdoors
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician "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) Outdoors When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Outdoors
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Outdoors "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) 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 Outdoors
"Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Outdoors Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Outdoors
Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) 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
ha True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Outdoors Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Outdoors
