Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Water Polo If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Water Polo
"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "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 Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Water Polo I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Water Polo
Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Water Polo Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Water Polo
If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Water Polo "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Water Polo
"Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Water Polo Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Water Polo
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Water Polo Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Water Polo
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Water Polo It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Water Polo
"I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Water Polo We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Water Polo
"Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Water Polo Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Water Polo
Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton "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 And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Water Polo If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Water Polo
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Water Polo Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) "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 Water Polo
