It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Maritime Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Maritime
"I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Maritime Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Maritime
"Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Maritime Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Maritime
blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Maritime "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Maritime
The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 Maritime I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Maritime
Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Maritime The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Maritime
Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous 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 Maritime "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Maritime
Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Maritime Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Maritime
I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Maritime Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Maritime
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Maritime Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Maritime
"Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Maritime The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Maritime
