What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Handball Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Handball
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Handball "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) 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 Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Handball
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Handball Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Handball
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Handball "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Handball
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Handball "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Handball
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Handball Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Handball
We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Handball Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Handball
It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Handball "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Handball
Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Handball The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Handball
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Handball Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Handball
And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Handball "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) 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 "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Handball
