Favorite Quotes

“To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.”

- Otto von Bismarck

"The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it."
  - Patrick Young

"If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf."
  - Bob Hope

"I hate to write.  I love having written." -- Robert Louis Stevenson

"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there." -- Lewis Carroll

"No man ever said on his deathbed I wish I had spent more time in the office" -- a  friend of Senator Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts.

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.  - John Sladek 

"The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable."  - John Kenneth Galbraith 

"Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine." - Sir Arthur Eddington

"In the long run, we are all dead." - John Maynard Keynes

"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology." - Carl Sagan

"When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half."  -Gracie Allen

"Invention is the mother of necessity." -Thorstein Veblen

"When all is said and done, much more is said than done."  -Lou Holtz

"Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down."  -Unknown

"of the 2500 authentic works painted by Jean-Baptist Camille Corot, 7800 are in American collections alone" -Newsweek

I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.  - Robert McCloskey 

The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.  - Henry J. Tillman 

How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?   - Charles De Gaulle

I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.   - Herb Caen

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.   - Doug Larson

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.  - Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)   

An interesting thing about golf is that no matter how badly you play; it is always possible to get worse. --Unknown