Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Leagues Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Leagues
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 Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Leagues Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Leagues
If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Leagues The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Leagues
"Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare 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 Leagues Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Leagues
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Leagues Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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 "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Leagues
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Leagues "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Leagues
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Leagues Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Leagues
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "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) The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Leagues The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard 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 Leagues
"What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Leagues The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Leagues
"The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Leagues "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Leagues
A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Leagues Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Leagues
