"Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Football "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Football
"Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Football Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Football
"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) I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch 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 "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Football "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Football
Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Football The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Football
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Football The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Football
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Football "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Football
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Football Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Football
Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Football The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Football
I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Football "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
"In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Football
Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell 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 "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Football Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Football
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Football Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Football
