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Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Football Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Football
All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Football Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Football
"It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Football "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Football
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Football A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Football
Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Football Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Football
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 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 If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous 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 Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Football "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Football
"All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Football "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Football
Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Football "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Football
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Football "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Football
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Football I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Man and wife make one fool. See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Football
In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Football blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Football
