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In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Cricket "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Cricket
The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Cricket It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Cricket
Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Cricket By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Cricket
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) Cricket Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Cricket
Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Cricket There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Cricket
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Cricket "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Cricket
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Cricket The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Cricket
"... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Cricket Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cricket
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Cricket Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Cricket
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Cricket Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Cricket
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Cricket I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Cricket
