We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Ketrzyn A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Ketrzyn
Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Ketrzyn We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Ketrzyn
"Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Ketrzyn Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Ketrzyn
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Ketrzyn "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Ketrzyn
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Ketrzyn A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Ketrzyn
Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Ketrzyn "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Ketrzyn
We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr 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 "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) He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Ketrzyn Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch "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 All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Ketrzyn
The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Ketrzyn The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Ketrzyn
your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Ketrzyn Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Ketrzyn
"I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Ketrzyn No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) 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
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A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Ketrzyn Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Ketrzyn
