The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Golf "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Golf
Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
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-- Erich Fromm Golf "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Golf
Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
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-- George Bernard Shaw Golf
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 To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Golf A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Golf
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Golf Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Golf
I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Golf "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Golf
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "'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) "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Golf Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Golf
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Golf 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 In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Golf
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Golf Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Golf
"Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Golf What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Golf
Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews "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) Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Golf "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Golf
