"Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible."
            --Miguel Unamuno (jun 98)

"All you touch and all you see,/Is all your life will ever be."
            --Pink Floyd, "Breathe" (jul 98)

"A map is the greatest of all epic poems."
            --Gilbert H. Grosvenor, National Geographic Editor (aug 98)

"May you live in interesting times."
            --Ancient Chinese curse/blessing. (sep 98)

"In those whom I like, I can find no common denominator; in those whom I love I can: they all make me laugh."
            --W. H. Auden (1907-1973) - American poet (oct 98)

"In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields."
            --John McCrae. (nov 98)

"At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year."
            --Thomas Tusser (dec 98)

"Villains, I say to you now...knock off all that evil!"
"Evil is just plain bad!"
            --The Tick (jan 99)

"Rin, pyou, tou, sha, kai, jin, retsu, sai, zen.  Akuryou taisan!"
            --Rei's ofuda speech (jan 99)

"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead."
            --Bertrand Russell (feb 99)

"Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last."
            --Remy de Gourmant (mar 99)

 "You can't always get what you want, but if  you try sometimes you just might find you'll get what you need."
            --The Rolling Stones (apr 99)

"Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence."
            --Desiderata (apr 99)

"Too much of a good thing is wonderful."
            --Mae West (may 99)

"What is a friend?  A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
            --Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) (jun 99)

"We love because it is the only true adventure."
            --Nikki Giovanni (jul 99)

"A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours."
            --J. B. Priestley