It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Camps and Camping "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Camps and Camping
blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Camps and Camping Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Camps and Camping
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Camps and Camping Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Camps and Camping
Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Camps and Camping "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Camps and Camping
Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be 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 "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Camps and Camping I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Camps and Camping
I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Camps and Camping To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Camps and Camping
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "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-) Camps and Camping After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Camps and Camping
"One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Camps and Camping 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. Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Camps and Camping
"A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Camps and Camping "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cĉsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Camps and Camping
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Camps and Camping To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Camps and Camping
"Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Camps and Camping We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Camps and Camping
