Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "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') "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Canoeing and Kayaking The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Canoeing and Kayaking
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Canoeing and Kayaking "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Canoeing and Kayaking
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht 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.
-- Anonymous The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Canoeing and Kayaking Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo 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 Canoeing and Kayaking
Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Canoeing and Kayaking The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Canoeing and Kayaking
"Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Canoeing and Kayaking "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Canoeing and Kayaking
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Canoeing and Kayaking Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Canoeing and Kayaking
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Canoeing and Kayaking A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Canoeing and Kayaking
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "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-) Canoeing and Kayaking There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy 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 is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Canoeing and Kayaking
In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? 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 think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Canoeing and Kayaking I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Canoeing and Kayaking
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Canoeing and Kayaking A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Canoeing and Kayaking
People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Canoeing and Kayaking 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 If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Canoeing and Kayaking
