If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Athletes "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Athletes
"A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) 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 executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Athletes Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Athletes
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Athletes Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Athletes
"I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Athletes Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Athletes
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Athletes Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Athletes
"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) 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 The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Athletes "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Athletes
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Athletes Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "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) Athletes
"The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Athletes We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Athletes
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Athletes The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Athletes
Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Athletes The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Athletes
"If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Athletes The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Athletes
