Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Football Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Football
We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Football Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Football
"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 Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx 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 We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Football I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Football
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Football "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Football
There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Football A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Football
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Football A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Football
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Football The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Football
"A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) 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 Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Football "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Football
Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Football The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the 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 "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Football
"Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Football Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Football
"Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Football Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Football
