The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Paintball Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Paintball
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "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) Paintball He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Paintball
Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Paintball I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Paintball
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Paintball Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Paintball
You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Paintball My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
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-- Rita Rudner Paintball
"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Paintball The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Paintball
NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
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-- Ben Hecht To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
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-- Ogden Nash Paintball During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Paintball
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
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-- Winston Churchill Paintball Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
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-- Elbert Hubbard Paintball
"How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Paintball A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Paintball
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 Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Paintball "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) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Paintball
No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Paintball Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Paintball
