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We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Football It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Nietzsche Football
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Football It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Football
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Football Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Football
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Football The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Football
To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Football I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Football
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Football "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) 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 Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Football
Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Football In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Football
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Football The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein "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 Football
"Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Football Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Football
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Football If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Football
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Football blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Football
