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Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Maritime The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Maritime
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Maritime Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Maritime
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Maritime Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Maritime
"My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Maritime "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Maritime
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." 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 Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Maritime A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Maritime
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Maritime Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Maritime
"A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Maritime Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Maritime
"We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Maritime Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Maritime
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Maritime Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Maritime
Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Maritime Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maritime
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Maritime Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Maritime
