There is nothing wrong with having nothing to say...unless you insist on saying it.
- Abraham Lincoln

 
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One of the few good things about modern times:  If you die horibly on television, you will not have died in vain.  You will have entertained us. 
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007)

 
Humor is also a way of saying something serious. 
- TS Elliot (1888-1965)

 
Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.
- Jim Morrison, rock singer, 1943-1971 (quote dedicated to Christian)

 
This is not Nam, this is bowling.  There are rules. 
- Walter

 
"Ah yes, divorce, from the Latin word, meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet." -- Robin Williams (thanks Chris for sending this along, but your privates are still intact.. for now!)

 
It's tough to make predictions. Especially about the future.
- Yogi Berra

 
Russia is "a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma"...
Winston Churchill

 
Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much
- unknown

 
There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the
unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters
humor. -George Santayana, philosopher (1863-1952)

 
A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.
- Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321)

 
Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.
- William Feather (1908 - 1976)

 
That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not.
- James Kern Feibleman, philosopher and psychiatrist (1904-1987)

 
Love involves a peculiar, unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding. -Diane Arbus, photographer (1923-1971)

 
The most futile thing in this world is any attempt, perhaps, at exact
definition of character. All individuals are a bundle of contradictions.
none more so than the most capable.
-Theodore Dreiser, author (1871-1945)

 
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
- Albert Einstein

 
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
- Albert Einstein

 
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury
that provokes it. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca, philosopher (BCE 3-65 CE)

 
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
- Mark Twain

 
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
- Thoreau

 
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
- Henry David Thoreau, Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862)

 
Why people cruise on sailboats:
"being free, and not having to do anything".
- anonymous british man on the Shards dvd

 
The poeple who suffer most,
are those who don't know What they want.
- Grey's Anatomy

 
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
-George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), novelist (1819-1880)

 
How can they say my life is not a success?
Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
-Logan Pearsall Smith, essayist (1865-1946)

 
To love someone deeply gives you strength.
Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu (from Lara's wedding site)

 
There is no try, only do or do not.

 
True remorse is never just a regret over consequences;
it is a regret over motive.
-Mignon McLaughlin, author (1915-)

 
"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift;
that's why they call it a present."
- Eleanor Roosevelt

 
There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say...unless you insist on saying it.
- Abraham Lincoln

 
We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented
with ourselves.
-Henri Frederic Amiel, philosopher and writer (1821-1881)

 
You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.
- Dave Barry

 
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get
better. It's not.
-Dr. Seuss, author and illustrator (1904-1991)

 
In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.
-Sigmund Freud, neurologist, founder of psychoanalysis (1856-1939)

 
I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the
edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., writer (1922- )

 
I fear nothing, I hope for nothing, I am free.
-Nikos Kazantzakis, poet and novelist (1883-1957)

 
Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.
-Joseph Joubert,essayist (1754-1824)

 
"A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner. "
- English Proverb

 
The intellect of man is forced to choose / Perfection of the life, or of
the work, / And if it take the second must refuse / A heavenly mansion,
raging in the dark.
-William Butler Yeats, writer, Nobel laureate (1865-1939)

 
FATHERS' DAY QUOTES:

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
-English Proverb

Be kind to thy father, for when thou wert young,
Who loved thee so fondly as he?
He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue,
And joined in thy innocent glee.
-Margaret Courtney, poet (1822-1862)

 
There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.
-French proverb

 
Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time.
-Stephen Swid, executive

 
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
-Frank William Leahy, football coach (1908-1973)

 
No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back.
-Turkish proverb

 
"Cruising is repairing boats in exotic places."
- unknown

 
No one ever ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you
have to move backward to get a step forward. -Amar Gopal Bose, electrical
engineer, inventor, founder Bose Corp. (1929- )

 
"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, Champagne in one hand -- strawberries in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming WOO HOO!"
-- unknown, contributed by Fran

 

A man is not old until his regrets take the place of dreams. -Yiddish proverb

 
Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.
-Fannie Hurst, writer (1889-1968)

 
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary
depends upon his not understanding it.
-Upton Sinclair, novelist and reformer (1878-1968)

 
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius

 
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are
those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing,
continue to love a changed person.
-- William Somerset Maugham

 
Love is like war; easy to begin but very hard to stop.
-H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic (1880-1956)

 
I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.
-Oscar Levant, composer (1906-1972)

 
There is no one, no matter how wise he is, who has not in his youth said
things or done things that are so unpleasant to recall in later life that
he would expunge them entirely from his memory if that were possible.
-Marcel Proust, novelist (1871-1922)

 
What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.
-P.D. James, writer (1920- )

 
"Life is what happens while you're making other plans...",
фильм Kuffs, 1992 год

 
Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.
-John Ruskin, (1819-1900)

 
"Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid
undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity."
-Socrates, philosopher (469?-399 BCE)

[or the Mike Anderson corollary -- "it's never as bad as it seems...
and it's never as good as it seems."]

 
The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.
-Joseph Joubert, essayist (1754-1824)

 
Assumptions are the termites of relationships.
-Henry Winkler, actor (1945-....)

 
If a man is alone in the woods and speaks, and there is no woman to hear him, is he still wrong?

 
There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over -- and to let go. It means leaving what's over without denying its validity or its past importance in our lives. It involves a sense of future, a belief that every exit line is an entry, that we are moving on, rather than out. ... We own what we learned back there. The experiences and the growth are grafted onto our lives. And when we exit, we can take ourselves along -- quite gracefully.
-- Ellen Goodman

 
"There's no explanation for what goes on." -- Lain Anderson, on the stock market, 07/17/03

 
I'd rather be beaten for telling the truth than to tell a lie just to please you. -- Dinka 06/03

 
All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running
from, and to, and why. -James Thurber, writer and cartoonist (1894-1961)

 
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him
absolutely no good. -Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)

 
...the truth is that I already know as much about my fate as I need to know. The day will come when I will die. So the only matter of consequence before me is what I will do with my allotted time. I can remain on shore, paralyzed with fear, or I can raise my sails and dip and soar in the breeze.
--Richard Bode, "First you have to row a little boat"

 
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
-William Shakespeare, playwright and poet (1564-1616)

 
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
-Kahlil Gibran, mystic, poet, and artist (1883-1931)

 
Learning is acquired by reading books; but the much more necessary
learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading
man, and studying all the various editions of them. -Philip Dormer
Stanhope, statesman and writer (1694-1773)

 
"Life wouldn't be much fun of we only got what we deserved." -- John Bryan, 6/2001

"Freedom and whiskey gang the gither." -- Burns (Scotland 1759-1796)
(taken from the wall of a pub in Glasgow, Scotland)

''Grasp the subject...the words will follow.'' - Cato the Elder

''I don't give people hell. I just tell them the truth, and it feels like hell.'' - H Truman

''Sailing, like life, is about the journey, not the destination'' - me

''I don't want to escape on a boat. I want to sail to where people are and meet them.'' - cruiser

''If you are going through hell, keep going. - Winston Churchill

One is punished most for one's virtues. - F. Nietesche

"What lies behind us, and what lies before us, are tiny matters compared with what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
-Confucius (551-479 BC)

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible"
- Walt Disney (1901-1966)

"expectations are a fundamental form of close-mindedness"
-- expectations are only a reflection of your own history, stereotypes and filters...
-- and they inhibit your from seeing the real beauty of the person....and the possibilities...
- M. Anderson

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
- Samuel Butler, writer (1835-1902)

People are like stained-glass windows.
They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when the darkness sets in,
their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Elizabeth K|bler-Ross

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain.
Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the
potter's oven? -Kahlil Gibran, mystic, poet, and artist (1883-1931)

"if you make no plans, then all things are possible."
- M. Anderson, Dec 19, 2002

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.
May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
-Edward Abbey, naturalist and author (1927-1989)

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.
-Vincent van Gogh, painter (1853-1890)

"IBM wasn't built with fuzzy ideas and pretentious language.
IBM was built with clear thinking and plain talk. Let's keep it that way."
- Thomas J. Watson, Jr.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. -Chinese Proverb

"if you have no expectations, then you won't be disappointed"
- M. Anderson, Fall of 2002

It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance,
than to control them after they have been admitted.
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca, philosopher and writer (c. 3 BCE - AD 65)

"I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am." -
- Samuel Johnson, lexicographer

"Life is mostly froth and bubble, / Two things stand like stone,
/ Kindness in another's trouble, / Courage in your own. "
-Adam Lindsay Gordon, poet (1833-1870)

Till death do us part was conceived in an age when the human lifespan averaged 35 years.
--Margaret Thatcher

Advice to a young man, from millions of more experienced men:
"Save alot of time, money and frustration with the whole dating and marriage thing
--- just find a woman you hate and buy her a house."
(source anonymous!)

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
-Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

"Is it true that you smoke eight to ten cigars a day?"
"That's true."
"Is it true that you drink five martinis a day?"
"That's true."
"Is it true that you still surround yourself with beautiful young women?"
"That's true."
"What does your doctor say about all of this?"
"My doctor is dead."
--- George Burns

"expectations are unfair to impose on anyone"
- M. Anderson, Fall of 2002


Man invented the slowest form of transportation - the sailboat - then decided to race them."
- philosopher unknown

"...We were born before the wind
Also younger than the sun
Ere the bonnie boat was won
As we sailed into the mystic
Hark, now hear the sailors cry
Smell the sea and feel the sky
Let your soul and spirit fly, into the mystic..."
Van Morrison

 
" I never met a bronski I didn't like." CEH -- August, 2002

 
"I did it on purpose." Mike Anderson, circa 1986