Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Handball The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Handball
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Handball Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Handball
"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) "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Handball If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Handball
"I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Handball I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Handball
Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Handball For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Handball
"Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Handball I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Handball
Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Handball Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Handball
I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Handball Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Handball
Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Handball "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Handball
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Handball "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "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) Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Handball
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Handball Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Handball
