A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Games I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Games
"Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Games Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Games
Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Games When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Games
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Games Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Games
He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Games Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Games
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Games I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Games
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Games Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Games
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Games In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. 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 "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Games
I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Games I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. 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 Games
In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Games Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Games
Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Games We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Games
