Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Cricket "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Cricket
If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Cricket "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Cricket
Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. 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 Cricket Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Cricket
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Cricket The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Cricket
True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Cricket Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Cricket
What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Cricket The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Cricket
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Cricket In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Cricket
Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan 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 I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Cricket Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Cricket
Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Cricket "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Cricket
"One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Cricket Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Cricket
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Cricket Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Cricket
