Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Shooting No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Shooting
Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Shooting Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Shooting
"I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H 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 Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Shooting "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "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) Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Shooting
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) 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 only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Shooting "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Shooting
The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Shooting This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) 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 Shooting
Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Shooting "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
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If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Shooting If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Shooting
If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Shooting "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) Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Shooting
Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Shooting If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Shooting
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 "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Shooting Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Shooting
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Shooting There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Shooting
