I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Clubs He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Clubs
In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Clubs You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Clubs
Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Clubs To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Clubs
"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Clubs By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Clubs
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Clubs Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Clubs
"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Clubs "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Clubs
In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Clubs If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Clubs
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Clubs Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Clubs
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Clubs A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Clubs
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson 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 Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Clubs I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Clubs
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Clubs When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Clubs
