"When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Hockey If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Hockey
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Hockey "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Hockey
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Hockey "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Hockey
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Hockey If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld 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 Hockey
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Hockey I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Hockey
"I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Hockey I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Hockey
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks 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 Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Hockey By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Hockey
"Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Hockey blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Hockey
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Hockey Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Hockey
The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Hockey An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Hockey
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Hockey The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Hockey
