I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Boating Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Boating
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Boating 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Boating
Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Boating Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Boating
The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Boating We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Boating
What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "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) Boating If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Boating
My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. 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) The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Boating "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Boating
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz 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) Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Boating Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. 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 Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Boating
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Boating It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Boating
"The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Boating "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Boating
"I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Boating Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Boating
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Boating Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Boating
