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Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana 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 "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Rugby Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Rugby
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Rugby Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Rugby
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Rugby "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Rugby
The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton 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 Rugby The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Rugby
What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "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) Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Rugby Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Rugby
A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Rugby Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Rugby
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Rugby Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Rugby
Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Rugby "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Rugby
I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Rugby Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Rugby
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Rugby "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Rugby
We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Rugby You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. "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) Rugby
