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I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Football I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Football
"Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Football "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Football
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) 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 Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Football He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Football
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Football America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Football
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Football Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Football
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Football If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Football
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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) Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Football Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Football
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Football The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Football
I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Football I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Football
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Football People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Football
"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Football "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
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