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Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Football The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Football
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Football "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Football
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Football The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Spinster: A bachelor's wife. "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) Football
Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge 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 The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Football "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Football
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Football Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) 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" Football
"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Football He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Football
Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Football The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Football
Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Football Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Football
I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Football "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Football
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Man and wife make one fool. The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Football Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
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In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Football 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 Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Football
