Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Multi-Sports The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Multi-Sports
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 True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Multi-Sports Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 Multi-Sports
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Multi-Sports "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) "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) Multi-Sports
"Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky "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) "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Multi-Sports Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Multi-Sports
There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Multi-Sports "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Multi-Sports
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Multi-Sports Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Multi-Sports
"In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Multi-Sports The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Multi-Sports
Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Multi-Sports Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes 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 Multi-Sports
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Multi-Sports "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Marriage is a rest period between romances. Multi-Sports
"A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Multi-Sports The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Multi-Sports
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Multi-Sports Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu 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 Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Multi-Sports
