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I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Maritime "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Maritime
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Maritime The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Maritime
"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Maritime A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Maritime
More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Maritime We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Maritime
Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Maritime 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 "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Maritime
"When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Maritime Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Maritime
"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "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 All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Maritime "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Maritime
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 ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Maritime Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Maritime
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Maritime As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Maritime
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Maritime The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Maritime
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Maritime I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Maritime
