If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
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will Sports Medicine If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Sports Medicine
I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Sports Medicine "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Sports Medicine
An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Sports Medicine Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Sports Medicine
If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Sports Medicine Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Sports Medicine
Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Sports Medicine Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Sports Medicine
I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Sports Medicine Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Sports Medicine
My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Sports Medicine "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Sports Medicine
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Sports Medicine "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Sports Medicine
Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow 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 Sports Medicine Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr 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 Sports Medicine
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Sports Medicine I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Sports Medicine
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Sports Medicine Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Sports Medicine
