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It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Football Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Football
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Football There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Football
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert "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) >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Football Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Football
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Football The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Football
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Football God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Football
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Football Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane 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
"I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Football If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Football
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Football Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Football
That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Football Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Football
Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Football "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Football
blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Football My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Football
