Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Volleyball If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Volleyball
People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to 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 "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Volleyball Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Volleyball
"Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Volleyball I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Volleyball
"Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Volleyball When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Volleyball
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
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-- Maya Angelou Volleyball 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Volleyball
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Volleyball Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
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-- George Santayana Volleyball
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Volleyball "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Volleyball
"Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Volleyball "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
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-- Mark Twain "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Volleyball
You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres 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 We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Volleyball "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Volleyball
I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Volleyball "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
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-- Tom Lehrer "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Volleyball
"I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) 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) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Volleyball "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Volleyball
