"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Football "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Football
Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Football The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Football
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Football "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Football
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Football Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Football
Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Football Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon 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 Football
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx 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 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 The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Football "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Football
Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Football "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Football
"To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Football The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Football
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Football Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Football
Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett 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 "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Football All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Football
I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "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) You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Football Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Football
