I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Falconry Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Falconry
I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Falconry Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Falconry
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Falconry If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Falconry
Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle 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 Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Falconry "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Falconry
Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous "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) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Falconry Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Falconry
I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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) The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Falconry I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Falconry
"You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Falconry Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Falconry
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Falconry "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Falconry
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein "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 It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Falconry "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Falconry
I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Falconry Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Falconry
Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Falconry "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Falconry
