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Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Athletics "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Athletics
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Athletics I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Athletics
Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Athletics University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Athletics
Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Athletics "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Athletics
"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Athletics The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Athletics
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Athletics There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Athletics
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland 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 "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Athletics People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Athletics
"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Athletics I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Athletics
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Athletics Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Athletics
Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Athletics Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Athletics
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Athletics Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Athletics
