UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Hockey "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne 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
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"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Hockey 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 Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Hockey
Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Hockey "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) "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) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Hockey
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 There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Hockey The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Hockey
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Hockey You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Hockey
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Hockey This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Hockey
Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Hockey There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Hockey
"What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Hockey If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Hockey
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Hockey "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) "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) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Hockey
I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Hockey Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hockey
"College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Hockey "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Hockey
