I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Football "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Football
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Football He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Football
"The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Football "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Football
Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) 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" Football Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Football
"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Football I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Football
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Football Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Football
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese "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) "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Football The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Football
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 Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Football "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Football
She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Football "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Football
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Football "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Football
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright 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 Football When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Football
