There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Golf We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Golf
Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Golf Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Golf
Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Golf Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Golf
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Golf In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Golf
I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Golf Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Golf
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Golf They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Golf
The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Golf Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Golf
The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Golf The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Golf
Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Golf Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Golf
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Golf It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Golf
"Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Golf Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Golf
