"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Football "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Football
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Football I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Football
"If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) 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 Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Football We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Football
"It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Football Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Football
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Football I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Football
I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. 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 Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Football When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Football
Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Football If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Football
A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) 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 Football Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Football
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Football Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Football
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Football Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Football
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Football Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
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