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The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Football "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Football
"You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Football America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Football
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Football The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Football
In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
"I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Football 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 In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Football
We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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
grie Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Football Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker 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 "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Football
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Football Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Football
The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Football Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit 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 Football
"Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Football 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 Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Football
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Football "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Football
Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Football What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Football
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown 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 Football "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Football
