"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Boating I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Boating
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) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Boating 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 Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Boating
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Boating There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Boating
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Boating The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Boating
When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart 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 There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Boating 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 I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Boating
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Boating Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Boating
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Boating 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 "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Boating
There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Boating We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Boating
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Boating "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cĉsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Boating
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Boating The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard 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 "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Boating
I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Boating Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Boating
