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"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
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-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Athletics Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Athletics
"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Athletics Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
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-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Athletics
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
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-- Jonathan S. Haas Athletics The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Athletics
Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana "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) Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Athletics Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Athletics
I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Athletics "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Athletics
"Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Athletics "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Athletics
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Athletics I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Athletics
"This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Athletics Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett 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 I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Athletics
I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Athletics He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Athletics
There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Athletics Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Athletics
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Athletics "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Athletics
