A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Football "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Football
I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Football He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Football
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Football "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Football
If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Football 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 "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Football
We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Football Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Football
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau 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 "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Football
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Football "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Football
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Football Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Football
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Football Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Football
"Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Football "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa 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 Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Football Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge "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 If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Football
