"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Sport Clubs The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Sport Clubs
I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Sport Clubs When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Sport Clubs
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Sport Clubs Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Sport Clubs
Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Sport Clubs "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Sport Clubs
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Sport Clubs We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Sport Clubs
There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Sport Clubs Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Sport Clubs
A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Sport Clubs A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sport Clubs
You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Sport Clubs Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Sport Clubs
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Sport Clubs There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Sport Clubs
"Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Sport Clubs Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Sport Clubs
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Sport Clubs Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Sport Clubs
