Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Almopia If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Almopia
[You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Almopia "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Almopia
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Almopia "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Almopia
If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Almopia Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
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Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "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) Almopia Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Almopia
Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren May you never leave your marriage alive. I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Almopia I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Almopia
"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Almopia Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Almopia
"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Almopia Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Almopia
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Almopia A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Almopia
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Almopia 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 "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Almopia
Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Almopia Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Almopia
