"I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Freshwater My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Anyway, 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,
ign Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Freshwater
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning 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 If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Freshwater Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Freshwater
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Freshwater 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 "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 Freshwater
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Freshwater If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War 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 Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Freshwater
Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Freshwater An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Freshwater
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Freshwater It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Freshwater
then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Freshwater Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Freshwater
"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Freshwater "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 Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Freshwater
Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Freshwater "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Freshwater
The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Freshwater The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Freshwater
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Freshwater "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Freshwater
