"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf "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) "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Football In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott "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) Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Football
"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Football Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Football
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Football Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Football
"When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Football I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Football
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Football There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Football
Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Football The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Football
What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Football I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Football
"We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Football The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Football
What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Football We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Football
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Football We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Football
A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor 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 The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Football If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Football
