"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Boating The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal 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 Boating
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Boating I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Boating
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Boating "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Boating
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 America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Boating After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Boating
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Boating For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Boating
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Boating When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Boating
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Boating "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "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) Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Boating
"If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Boating Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Boating
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Boating Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Boating
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Boating Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Boating
"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) May you never leave your marriage alive. Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Boating "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Boating
