Philip's Koje Island page - Site about Koje Island (otherwise Kojedo) by Philip Martin who was on a gap year there from 1997 to 1998.
Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Personal Experiences Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Personal Experiences
We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Personal Experiences Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Personal Experiences
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Personal Experiences I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Personal Experiences
"The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Personal Experiences The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Personal Experiences
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Personal Experiences I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Personal Experiences
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) 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 Personal Experiences Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Personal Experiences
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Personal Experiences My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Personal Experiences
Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Personal Experiences Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Personal Experiences
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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 Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda >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 excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Personal Experiences "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Personal Experiences
As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers May you never leave your marriage alive. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Personal Experiences I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Personal Experiences
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Personal Experiences Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Personal Experiences
