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 He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Islands "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Islands
To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Islands "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..." ( Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Islands
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Islands "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Islands
"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, Alice in Wonderland "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Islands Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Islands
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Islands Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Islands
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Islands Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Islands
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Islands "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Islands
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Islands Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Islands
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Islands Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Islands
"The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Islands Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Islands
"God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Islands The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Islands
