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I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Football "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Football
Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Football Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Football
The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain 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 blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Football Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Football
"There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Football I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Football
People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Football Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Football
"Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Football The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Football
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. 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 met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Football Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Football
A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Football Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Football
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Football All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) 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) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley "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') "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Football Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Football
A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud 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 First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Football Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Football
