Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Hobbies The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Hobbies
The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Hobbies The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Hobbies
Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Hobbies Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Hobbies
"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) Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Hobbies A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Hobbies
"Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Hobbies Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Hobbies
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Hobbies 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 An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Hobbies
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Hobbies Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Hobbies
"There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash 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 Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Hobbies "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Hobbies
"I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Hobbies Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Hobbies
"Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Hobbies "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Hobbies
He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Hobbies Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Hobbies
