"The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Football If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Football
When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) 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 "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Football
The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Football A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Football
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Football If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Football
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Football If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Football
"It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Football "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Football
"A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Football Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford 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 As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Football
"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Football "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Football
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Football Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Football
"All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Football "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Football
What's new? Most of my wife. When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Football Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Football
