I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Maritime The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Maritime
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Maritime 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 Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Maritime
To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken .. 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 Maritime "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Maritime
"Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Maritime A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Maritime
I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Maritime Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Maritime
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Maritime When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Maritime
Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Maritime Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Maritime
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid 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 I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Maritime It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Maritime
Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Maritime We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Maritime
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Maritime Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Maritime
If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Maritime The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Maritime
