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The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Football It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Football
"Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Football Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live "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 Football
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Football "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
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Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Football The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
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"Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Football He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Football
It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers What's new? Most of my wife. God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Football "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Football
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Football Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Football
Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Football It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Football
Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Football The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Football
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Football Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Football
"In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Football "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) You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Football
