Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Skiing I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Skiing
"Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Skiing "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Skiing
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley 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 Skiing Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Skiing
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Skiing If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Skiing
If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Skiing If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Skiing
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Skiing The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Skiing
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen 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 "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Skiing My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Skiing
"We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Skiing If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Skiing
"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Skiing It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Skiing
"I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea 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 What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Skiing "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Skiing
Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Skiing Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Skiing
