You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Hockey Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Hockey
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) 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 Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Hockey Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
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"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Hockey There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
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-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Hockey
"Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Hockey "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Hockey
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Hockey As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Hockey
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Hockey He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Hockey
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Hockey Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Hockey
A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Hockey Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) "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
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Hockey You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Hockey
Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Hockey Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Hockey
