I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "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) Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Rowing No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Rowing
The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Rowing "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Rowing
"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Rowing The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Rowing
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Rowing This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Rowing
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Rowing The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Rowing
"No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger 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 Rowing Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Rowing
We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Rowing "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Rowing
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham 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 Rowing "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver 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 Rowing
I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Rowing A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Rowing
"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 I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Rowing This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Rowing
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Rowing Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Rowing
