"Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain "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) You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Rugby A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Rugby
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Rugby Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Rugby
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Rugby "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Rugby
"Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Rugby The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Rugby
If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre 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 When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Rugby The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Rugby
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël 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 "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Rugby A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Rugby
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Rugby Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Rugby
English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Rugby If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Rugby
"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) Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Rugby Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Rugby
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Rugby First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Rugby
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Rugby As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Rugby
