The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Fishing A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Fishing
"I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Fishing "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Fishing
"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 It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Fishing It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Fishing
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Fishing A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Fishing
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Fishing "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Fishing
If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Fishing He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Fishing
"If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) 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 To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Fishing Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Fishing
"There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Fishing I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Fishing
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Fishing "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Fishing
I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Fishing In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Fishing
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Fishing Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Fishing
