"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "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) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Football His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Football
Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Football We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Football
"The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Football My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Football
"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Football Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor 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 There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Football
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Football We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Football
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) "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 "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Football "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Football
Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Football Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Football
The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Football Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Football
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Football The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Football
Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Football "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Football
A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Football 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 Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Football
