Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Maritime We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Maritime
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Maritime Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Maritime
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Maritime "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Maritime
Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Maritime Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Maritime
The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Maritime "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
"Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Maritime
Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Maritime The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Maritime
They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan 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 Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Maritime Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting 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 I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Maritime
"As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Maritime I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Maritime
I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Maritime The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Maritime
He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Maritime If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Maritime
"The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Maritime A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Maritime
