Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Badminton When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Badminton
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Badminton Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Badminton
"Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Badminton It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Badminton
"One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Badminton A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Badminton
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 Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Badminton "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Badminton
"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Badminton Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Badminton
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Badminton Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Badminton
"As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Badminton If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Badminton
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams 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 Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Badminton Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Badminton
What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Badminton Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Badminton
"If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Badminton If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Badminton
