"How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous 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 Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Football "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Football
Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Football An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Football
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Football A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Football
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Football "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Football
"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Football To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Football
Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Football If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Football
I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John 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 The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Football Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Football
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Football Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Football
"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) 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) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Football Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Football
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Football I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Football
And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Football blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) 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 I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
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