"People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Football The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Football
This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson 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 Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Football Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Football
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Football He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Football
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Football I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Football
A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Football Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Football
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Football The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Football
People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Football Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Football
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Football The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Football
In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Football There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Football
"Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau 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 A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Football
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Football "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Football
