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Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Goalball We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Goalball
"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Goalball The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Goalball
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Goalball The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland 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.
-- Anonymous Goalball
"When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Goalball A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Goalball
"Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart "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) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Goalball Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Goalball
Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Goalball "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Goalball
I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Goalball Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Goalball
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Goalball Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Goalball
"No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Goalball Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Goalball
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen "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) Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Goalball It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Goalball
Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Goalball Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Goalball
