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What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Rugby But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Rugby
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cĉsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Rugby Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Rugby
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Rugby "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Rugby
Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Rugby "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Rugby
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Rugby Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Rugby
"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Rugby You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Rugby
"He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Rugby Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Rugby
Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Rugby "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Rugby
Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Rugby Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Rugby
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Rugby My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Rugby
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Rugby Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Rugby
