Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Football For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire "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) Football
UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Football "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) "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 No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Football
People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Football "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Football
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Football Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison 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 Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Football
"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Football A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Football
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Football Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Football
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Football "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Football
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Football A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Football
"The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Football "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) 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 Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Football
I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Football Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Football
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Football "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Football
