The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Hockey Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Hockey
blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Hockey "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Hockey
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Hockey Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Hockey
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 I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Hockey I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Hockey
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Hockey If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
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If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hockey All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Hockey
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Hockey "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Hockey
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Hockey "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Hockey
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde 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 You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Hockey Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Hockey
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Hockey blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Hockey
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Hockey All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Hockey
