Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Maritime Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Maritime
Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Maritime It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Maritime
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Maritime "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Maritime
I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Maritime Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Maritime
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Maritime Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Maritime
I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Maritime Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Maritime
"This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous 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 Maritime 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Maritime
"A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West 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 Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Maritime If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Maritime
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Maritime If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Maritime
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Maritime What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Maritime
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Maritime "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries 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 Maritime
