A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Football "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Football
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Football Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Football
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Football Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Football
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Football That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Football
Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Football The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Football
then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Football The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Football
The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Football "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Football
A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Football America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Football
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein 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 When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Football Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Football
"If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Football "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Football
Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Football Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Football
