"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Football "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) "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Football
"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Football "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Football
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 Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Football Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Football
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Football The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Football
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Football "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Football
"Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous "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 And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Football The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Football
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Football At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Football
There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings My other wife is beautiful. No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Football You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Football
"Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) 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 "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Football "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Football
Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Football ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Football
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Football I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Football
