Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Amateur Radio Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Amateur Radio
"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Amateur Radio We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Amateur Radio
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde "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, Amateur Radio Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Amateur Radio
Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Amateur Radio Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Amateur Radio
Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Amateur Radio Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Amateur Radio
He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Amateur Radio "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Amateur Radio
"Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Amateur Radio Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Amateur Radio
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard 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 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 Amateur Radio "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Amateur Radio
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Amateur Radio Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Amateur Radio
The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Amateur Radio "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Amateur Radio
Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Amateur Radio Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Amateur Radio
