"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) "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Volleyball I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Volleyball
There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Volleyball With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Volleyball
He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Volleyball "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) 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 "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Volleyball
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Volleyball "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Volleyball
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Volleyball Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Volleyball
Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Volleyball I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Volleyball
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Volleyball "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Volleyball
He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Volleyball "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Volleyball
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Volleyball "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Volleyball
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Volleyball You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Volleyball
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Volleyball Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Volleyball
