"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Game Playing A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Game Playing
The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. 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 Game Playing Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Game Playing
The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Game Playing Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Game Playing
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Game Playing Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Game Playing
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Game Playing If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Game Playing
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Game Playing Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Game Playing
To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) 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 Game Playing The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Game Playing
Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Game Playing Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Game Playing
"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) These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Game Playing Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Game Playing
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Game Playing "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Game Playing
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Game Playing If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Game Playing
