The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Football I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz "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) Football
"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Football Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Football
"You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Football What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Football
blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Football Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower 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. There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Football
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Football Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Football
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Football My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Football
"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Football If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Football
The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Football The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Football
"Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Football "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 you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Football
In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Football There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Football
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Football A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Football
