Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Football The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Football
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Football Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Football
"People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Football "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Football
If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier 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 The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
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-- M. C. Reed "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Football
May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Football "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Football
"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Football Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
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There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Football If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Football
Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins "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-) It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Football Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Football
Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner 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 Football 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 The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Football
"Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Football All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Football
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Football Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Football
