Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Soccer True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Soccer
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Soccer Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Soccer
Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Soccer He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
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A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Soccer A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Soccer
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Soccer Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Soccer
"I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Soccer "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Soccer
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Soccer A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Soccer
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Soccer The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Soccer
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Soccer People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Soccer
Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Soccer Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Soccer
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Soccer "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Soccer
