A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Basketball "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Basketball
If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Basketball "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Basketball
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) 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. Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Basketball Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Basketball
Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Basketball If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Basketball
Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Basketball Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Basketball
"Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Basketball "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Basketball
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Basketball Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Basketball
It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. 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 "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth 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 Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Basketball Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Basketball
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Basketball Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Basketball
Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Basketball "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Basketball
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Basketball If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Basketball
