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-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Boating The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Boating
Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith 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 It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Boating I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Boating
"Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Boating Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Boating
"I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Boating In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Boating
There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Boating Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Boating
Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Boating Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Boating
Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Boating "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Boating
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Boating The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w 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) Boating
Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Boating "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Boating
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Boating "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Boating
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Boating "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Boating
