Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Boating "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Boating
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Boating "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) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Boating
No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) 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 Boating "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 I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Boating
The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Boating Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Boating
Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Boating Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Boating
"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) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Boating Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Boating
"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Boating Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Boating
Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Boating Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Boating
Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Boating Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Boating
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "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) Boating A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Boating
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Boating "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Boating
