What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol 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 Skating Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Skating
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Skating A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley My other wife is beautiful. Skating
Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Skating I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Skating
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Skating "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Skating
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Skating In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Skating
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Skating I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Skating
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Skating "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Skating
We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. 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 Skating You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Skating
>From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Skating The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Skating
"The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Skating I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Skating
ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Skating How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Skating
