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 your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Boating The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Boating
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Boating The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Boating
What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Boating Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Boating
It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Boating I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Boating
"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Boating Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "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) Boating
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Boating If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Boating
"Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Boating Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Boating
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson "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) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Boating History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Boating
Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Boating "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Boating
Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Boating When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Spinster: A bachelor's wife. May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Boating
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 Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Boating 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 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 The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Boating
