"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Football They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Football
If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin "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) "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Football Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Football
"Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Football "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Football
A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Football Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Football
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Football This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Football
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Football You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Football
There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Football "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Football
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Football The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Football
"One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Football Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Football
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Football Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Football
Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Football Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Football