I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Football To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Football
A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Football 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 Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce 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 Football
blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Football I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "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 Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Football
"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness 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 Football We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Football
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Football It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Football
Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Football If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Football
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Football The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Football
I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Football The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Football
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Football This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Football
Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Football "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Football
I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Football I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Football
