Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Maritime ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Maritime
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Maritime "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Maritime
"Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Maritime The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Maritime
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Maritime May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Maritime
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Maritime The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Maritime
"Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Maritime "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Maritime
They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Maritime Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Maritime
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 A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be "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 May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Maritime A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Maritime
The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Maritime "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Maritime
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Maritime Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Maritime
"Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Maritime Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "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) Maritime
