To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) 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. "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) American Football Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth American Football
I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley American Football You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce 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 American Football
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim 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 Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns American Football Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') American Football
I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. American Football "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers "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) American Football
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. American Football The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland American Football
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, "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 It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard American Football Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 American Football
Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha "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 "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana American Football Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder American Football
"Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca American Football The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r American Football
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman American Football blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) American Football
"Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley American Football We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright American Football
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 American Football If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) American Football
