As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Obwalden 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 For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Obwalden
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Obwalden 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 Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Obwalden
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) 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 The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Obwalden Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Obwalden
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position 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 I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Obwalden Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Obwalden
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Obwalden "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Obwalden
The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Obwalden Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Obwalden
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Obwalden Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Obwalden
Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Obwalden Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Obwalden
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Obwalden Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Obwalden
What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Obwalden Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Obwalden
"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Obwalden "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Obwalden
