Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Football Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Football
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Football The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James "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) In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Football
Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon 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 A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Football The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan "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 The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Football
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Football Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Football
"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Football Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 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 Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Football
I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Football Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Football
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Football There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Football
I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Football It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Football
cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle 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 "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Football It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "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) The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Football
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Football Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Football
"Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Football "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Football
