"I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Ice Hockey Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Ice Hockey
When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Ice Hockey It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ice Hockey
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Ice Hockey "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Ice Hockey
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Ice Hockey Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Ice Hockey
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Ice Hockey I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Ice Hockey
Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Ice Hockey "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Ice Hockey
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide 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 "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Ice Hockey Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Ice Hockey
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Ice Hockey Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Ice Hockey
"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) "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Ice Hockey "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Ice Hockey
Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Ice Hockey The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Ice Hockey
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Ice Hockey "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) 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 Ice Hockey
