Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "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) Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Carrick The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Carrick
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Carrick Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Carrick
"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart "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 When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Carrick Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Carrick
Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Carrick "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Carrick
The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Carrick For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Carrick
"To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Carrick If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Carrick
Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Carrick The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi 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 Carrick
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Carrick You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Carrick
"I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Carrick "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Carrick
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 When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Carrick "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) "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) Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Carrick
An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Carrick The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Carrick
