Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Boating That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Boating
"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Boating The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Boating
Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Boating Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Boating
"One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Boating The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Boating
In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Boating You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Boating
Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Boating "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Boating
"If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Boating Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld 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 Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Boating
"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Boating "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) 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 "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Boating
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Boating I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Boating
My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) 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 All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Boating "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Boating
Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin 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) What's new? Most of my wife. The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Boating Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Boating
