Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Basketball "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Basketball
"I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict 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 "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Basketball "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Basketball
He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Basketball Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Basketball
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Basketball May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Basketball
"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Basketball You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Basketball
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Basketball "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Basketball
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Basketball Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Basketball
I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Basketball Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster What's new? Most of my wife. Basketball
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Basketball A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Basketball
Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Basketball Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Basketball
There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Basketball There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Basketball
