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Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Hockey "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) 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 A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Hockey
"You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "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 Hockey Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Hockey
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Hockey In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Hockey
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Hockey Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Hockey
My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Hockey Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Hockey
May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Hockey "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Hockey
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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.
-- Anonymous What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Hockey "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Hockey
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Hockey All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Hockey
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Hockey The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Hockey
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder "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) The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Hockey "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Hockey
Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop 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 "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Hockey Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Hockey
