Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed 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 "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Football
I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Football The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Football
Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Football Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Football
When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Football Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Football
It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Football One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Football
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Football Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Football
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Football Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Football
Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Football Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Football
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 A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Football The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Football
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Football A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Football
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Football "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
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