"That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Maritime And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. 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 Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Maritime
The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Maritime "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Maritime
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Maritime blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Maritime
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Maritime The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Maritime
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Maritime "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) "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) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Maritime
I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Maritime Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Maritime
I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Maritime "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maritime
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Maritime "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Maritime
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett 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 Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Maritime The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Maritime
This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Maritime Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Maritime
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Maritime Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Maritime
