Water is the only drink for a wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau
We walk in the shadows of our fathers.
- Michael D. Robinson
To be healthy, wealthy, and wise keep your distance from people that use “party” as a verb.
- Robert Dean Conroy
Better to appear dumb, than afraid.
- D. M. O'Karma
Pick your regrets carefully as they are your companions for the rest of your life.
- Robert Dean Conroy
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
- Mark Twain
A day spent golfing is lost forever.
- Robert Dean Conroy
- Paul Theroux
I offset my carbon footprint by not attending professional sporting events.
- Robert Dean Conroy
Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.
- Paul Theroux
If you are reading this it is proof that looking for the Higgs Boson did not cause a black hole.
- Robert Dean Conroy
The hardest thing to endure is an obvious truth that others have decided to ignore.
- Robert Dean Conroy
Here’s all of the advice that I’ve got. If it doesn’t feel right…it’s probably not.
- D. M. O’Karma
When you feel the sting of the whip does it matter if the whip is held by management, labor or government?
- Robert Dean Conroy
I always miss the Super Bowl and the World Series and every other sporting event that I can. It is my version of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness!
- Robert Dean Conroy
I love car washes, licorice and I really love Papa!
- Hunter Dean Johnson
All rules can have exceptions, but you can’t have exceptions without the rules.
- Robert Dean Conroy
A well-timed kind word is a precious gift.
- Robert Dean Conroy
With great power comes great responsibility.
- Uncle Ben
First world problems are still problems.
- Robert Dean Conroy
All you need is love.
- Lennon / McCartney
If only the good die young there are a lot of bad people in Florida.
- Robert Dean Conroy
Creative things have to sell to get acknowledged as such.
- Steve Wozniak
My favorite forms of exercise are jumping to conclusions followed by leaps of faith.
- Robert Dean Conroy
In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference.
- Douglas R. Hofstadter
Making hydrogen into helium is quite simple if you start with a few thousand billion tons of hydrogen.
- Robert Dean Conroy
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
- Abraham Lincoln
Good risk management is calling 911 before doing an activity that begins with, “Watch this!”
- Robert Dean Conroy
Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.
- Paul Theroux
Proficiency at prioritization is a prerequisite for progress.
- Robert Dean Conroy
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain
Even Shakespeare made some typos and grammatical errors but his became the preferred version.
- Robert Dean Conroy
Isolation and apathy are poor substitutes for contentment.
- Robert Dean Conroy
The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.
- Abraham Lincoln
Ignorance can be replaced with knowledge, and with perseverance, that knowledge can become wisdom.
- Robert Dean Conroy
Never spend your money before you have earned it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Happiness takes effort and without effort the default is misery.
- Robert Dean Conroy
If we are stardust, it is a good thing that it cools down before we use it.
- Robert Dean Conroy
I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice.
- Albert Einstein
The greatest gift to give your descendants is a legacy of honor and integrity.
- Robert Dean Conroy
Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.
- Douglas R. Hofstadter
- Robert Dean Conroy
If a task is not worth a 100% effort, then give it none.
- Robert Dean Conroy
Modern Parenting: “Settle down or I am going to text your dad!”
- Robert Dean Conroy
Do or do not… there is no try.
- Yoda
I’d rather be boring than broke.
- Robert Dean Conroy
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein
Everyone I follow on Facebook that is a runner eventually gets a serious injury–do they not notice the correlation?
- Robert Dean Conroy
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
- Mark Twain
We build truths out of the bones of those that defy conventional wisdom.
- Robert Dean Conroy
Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
- Ronald Reagan
Defining oneself by the type and brand of alcohol consumed is an example of effective marketing meeting low self-esteem.
- Robert Dean Conroy
To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of men.
- Abraham Lincoln
- Robert Dean Conroy
- Robert Dean Conroy
A word can convey complex concepts but it is made up of letters that individually mean nothing.
- Robert Dean Conroy
- Robert Dean Conroy
Credit cards are the opiate of the masses.
- Robert Dean Conroy
Flectere si nequeo Superos, Acheronta movebo. (Tact is for people not witty enough to use sarcasm)
- Virgil
- Robert M. Pirsig
The size of the universe is limited only by our ability to perceive it.
- Robert Dean Conroy
- Yoda
An unexamined life is like insignificant flotsam and jetsam on the backwaters of humanity.
- Robert Dean Conroy
The hypotenuse of a right triangle is occasionally very handy.
- Robert Dean Conroy
- D. M. O’Karma
Defining, evaluating, and controlling our needs vs. our wants is the pinnacle of human achievement.
- Robert Dean Conroy
Multiplying two imaginary numbers together always results in a negative number and that is fine by me.
- Robert Dean Conroy
It is easy to adjust a goal to match the results – politicians do it all the time.
- Robert Dean Conroy
- Abraham Lincoln
Dust and smoke in the atmosphere create beautiful sunsets and then attack your lungs while you sleep.
- Robert Dean Conroy
- Lennon/McCartney
- Robert Dean Conroy
- Robert Dean Conroy
An exception to an exception is a rule and all rules are created this way except for this one.
- Robert Dean Conroy
- Cicero, 55 BCE
