"Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Hopeman "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Hopeman
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) 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 The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Hopeman People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Hopeman
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Hopeman "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Hopeman
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Hopeman "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Hopeman
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Hopeman You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig 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 Hopeman
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Hopeman "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) 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 Hopeman
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Hopeman He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Hopeman
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Hopeman "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hopeman
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Hopeman The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Hopeman
And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hopeman The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Hopeman
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Hopeman "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Hopeman
