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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Canoes and Kayaks "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Canoes and Kayaks
Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Canoes and Kayaks This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Canoes and Kayaks
I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Canoes and Kayaks Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Canoes and Kayaks
"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Canoes and Kayaks Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Canoes and Kayaks
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 concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Canoes and Kayaks "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) "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Canoes and Kayaks
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Canoes and Kayaks "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Canoes and Kayaks
"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Canoes and Kayaks A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe 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 "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Canoes and Kayaks
"Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Canoes and Kayaks 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 In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Canoes and Kayaks
The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Canoes and Kayaks When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Canoes and Kayaks
Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Canoes and Kayaks "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Canoes and Kayaks
"The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Canoes and Kayaks Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Canoes and Kayaks
