One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Basketball If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Basketball
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Basketball It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Basketball
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Basketball Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Basketball
"Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Basketball Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Basketball
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Basketball Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Basketball
A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Basketball Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Basketball
I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Basketball My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Basketball
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Basketball 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 My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Basketball
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Basketball When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Basketball
The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Basketball America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Basketball
You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Basketball Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Basketball
