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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken What's new? Most of my wife. Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Football If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Football
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Spinster: A bachelor's wife. When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain "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) It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Football America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Football
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Football Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Football
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Football "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Football
No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Football "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Football
Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. 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 I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Football They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Football
blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Football Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Football
"When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Football There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Football
The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Football "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Football
A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Football The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Football
The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "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 "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Football I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Football
