Quotations V3.00

A new, and timely, quotation from French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau, who participated in writing the Treaty of Versailles at the end of World War I. At bottom . . .

"Luck is when preparation meets opportunity."

-- Drummer Neil Peart of Rush

"I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary."

-- Science Fiction Writer William Gibson

"Never forget, even if you win at the rat race of life, you are still a rat."

-- as quoted by Prof. Dianne Porfleet, Hope College

"There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do."

-- Cartoonist Bill Watterson

"Just to live in the country is a full-time job. You don't have to do anything. The idle pursuit of making a living is pushed to one side, where it belongs, in favor of living itself, a task of such immediacy, variety, beauty, and excitement that one is powerless to resist its wild embrace."

-- Writer E. B. White

"It is much easier to make war than peace."

-- French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau