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 If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Volleyball Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Volleyball
"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Volleyball "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Volleyball
"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 We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Volleyball Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Volleyball
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Volleyball After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
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It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Volleyball I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca 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
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I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Volleyball To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Volleyball
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 "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Volleyball "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
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"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Volleyball I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Volleyball
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Volleyball It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Volleyball
"I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Volleyball The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Volleyball
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) 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 I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Volleyball As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Volleyball
