Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Football Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Football
"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Football A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Football
He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Football Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Football
Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Football Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Football
We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House "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 I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Football "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Football
If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) 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 Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Football It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Football
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Football "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Football
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis 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 feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Football This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman "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 Football
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u 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 "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Football My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Football
blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Football "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Football
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 An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Football If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Football
