You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Snowboarding Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Snowboarding
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Snowboarding "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Snowboarding
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 I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Snowboarding "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Snowboarding
You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Snowboarding "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Snowboarding
Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Snowboarding There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Snowboarding
Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Snowboarding The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink 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 Snowboarding
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Snowboarding What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Snowboarding
"One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Snowboarding Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Snowboarding
A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Snowboarding "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 concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Snowboarding
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Snowboarding Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Snowboarding
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Snowboarding We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Snowboarding
