"There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Golf "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Golf
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Golf I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Golf
I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Golf There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Golf
He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche 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 I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Golf When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Golf
Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Golf Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Golf
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Golf If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Golf
The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Golf "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) The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Golf
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi 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 "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Golf
I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Golf Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Golf
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Golf "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Golf
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Golf Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Golf
