"If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Rugby "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Rugby
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Rugby The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Rugby
Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Rugby He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Rugby
Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Rugby "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Rugby
"Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Rugby To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Rugby
The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Rugby I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Rugby
Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Rugby Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Rugby
Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Rugby Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Rugby
"Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Rugby A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Rugby
Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Rugby If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Rugby
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Rugby Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Rugby
