"It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Amateur Radio "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Amateur Radio
Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) 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 Amateur Radio He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Amateur Radio
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Amateur Radio Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Amateur Radio
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Amateur Radio "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Amateur Radio
The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Amateur Radio "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Amateur Radio
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Amateur Radio When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Amateur Radio
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Amateur Radio Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Amateur Radio
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Amateur Radio A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Amateur Radio
"I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Amateur Radio "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Amateur Radio
This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Amateur Radio We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Amateur Radio
I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Amateur Radio Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra "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) Amateur Radio
