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We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Scrabble If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Scrabble
I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Scrabble Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Scrabble
He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Scrabble The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Scrabble
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Scrabble "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Scrabble
I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Scrabble A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Scrabble
Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Scrabble It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Scrabble
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Scrabble Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Scrabble
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Scrabble The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth "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) Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Scrabble
Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Scrabble Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Scrabble
Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Scrabble Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Scrabble
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Scrabble "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Scrabble
