That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cćsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Lakes and Boating Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lakes and Boating
You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Lakes and Boating "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 The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Lakes and Boating
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Lakes and Boating "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Lakes and Boating
Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) 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 Lakes and Boating 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Lakes and Boating
Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Lakes and Boating There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Lakes and Boating
Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau 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 Lakes and Boating Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Lakes and Boating
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Lakes and Boating "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Lakes and Boating
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Lakes and Boating Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Lakes and Boating
Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Lakes and Boating "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Lakes and Boating
What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Lakes and Boating "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Lakes and Boating
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Lakes and Boating The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner "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." "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Lakes and Boating
