Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams 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 "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Arctic and Siberian Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides 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 When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Arctic and Siberian
All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Arctic and Siberian Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Arctic and Siberian
Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Arctic and Siberian There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Arctic and Siberian
Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Arctic and Siberian "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Arctic and Siberian
This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Arctic and Siberian The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Arctic and Siberian
"The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Arctic and Siberian It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Arctic and Siberian
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Arctic and Siberian We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Arctic and Siberian
"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Arctic and Siberian He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Arctic and Siberian
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Arctic and Siberian Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Arctic and Siberian
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Arctic and Siberian The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Arctic and Siberian
I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Arctic and Siberian Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Arctic and Siberian
