"And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Cycling The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Cycling
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Cycling The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Cycling
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Cycling The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Cycling
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, "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." Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham 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 Cycling The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cycling
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Cycling Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Cycling
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Cycling 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,
"God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Cycling
Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Cycling When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Cycling
Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Cycling "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Cycling
If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Cycling "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Cycling
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Cycling You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Cycling
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 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 Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Cycling The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Cycling
