blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Martial Arts Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Martial Arts
What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "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) Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Martial Arts The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Martial Arts
That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Martial Arts 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 Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Martial Arts
"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Martial Arts "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Martial Arts
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Martial Arts The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Martial Arts
Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman "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) To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Martial Arts I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Martial Arts
Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Martial Arts Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Martial Arts
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Martial Arts There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Martial Arts
Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Martial Arts Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Martial Arts
A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Martial Arts Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Martial Arts
Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides 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 A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Martial Arts Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Martial Arts
