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, "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Football "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Football
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Football The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Football
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Football This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Football
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "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, Alice in Wonderland "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Football "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Football
"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "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 Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Football Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Football
The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Football Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Football
"Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Football A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Football
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Football The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Football
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Football There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Football
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Football As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
"Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Football
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Football Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Football
