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No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hillwalking Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Hillwalking
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Hillwalking Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Hillwalking
"It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert 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 Hillwalking The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "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-) Hillwalking
"The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hillwalking It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Hillwalking
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Hillwalking Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Hillwalking
"'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, Through the Looking Glass) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Hillwalking "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) "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Hillwalking
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Hillwalking In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Hillwalking
If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? 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 Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Hillwalking This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker 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 No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Hillwalking
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Hillwalking History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Hillwalking
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Hillwalking Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Hillwalking
A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Hillwalking Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Hillwalking
