What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Football Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Football
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Football No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Football
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Football If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Football
It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Football blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Football
"In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Football 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 "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Football
Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Football Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Football
I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Football In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Football
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Football Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Football
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Football "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Football
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 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 Football In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Football
A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Football The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Football
