Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Basketball Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Basketball
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Basketball "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Basketball
If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Basketball Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Basketball
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Basketball Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Basketball
Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Basketball If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Basketball
Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Basketball "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Basketball
What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Basketball Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Basketball
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Basketball Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Basketball
This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Basketball When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Think off-center." (George Carlin) There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Basketball
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Basketball "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Basketball
It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Basketball "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Basketball
