When you are finally holding all the cards, why does everyone else decide to play chess? -Unknown

During my life I have made no serious attempt to change the world, but at the same time I have made a serious attempt not to be changed by the world. -Yodar Kritch

To the intellectually alert, there cannot be such a thing as boredom. -Dr. Dementia

Gamers fiddle while the world burns. -Yodar Kritch

For all believers of Islam, that the simplicity and totality of their faith not blind them to the dangers. -"The Mahdi" A.J.Quinnell (1981)

Most surely there is a party amongst those who distort the Book with their tongue that you may consider it to be (a part) of the Book, and they say, It is from Allah, while it is not from Allah, and they tell a lie against Allah whilst they know. -The Quran

All nations are colonies of multi-national financial empires. -Yodar Kritch

The consumer has been the economy's savior. Neither rain, nor heat, nor lack of income will stay the consumers from their rounds of spending money. -Joel Naroff (Naroff Economic Advisors)

OPTIMISM, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. It is held with greatest tenacity by those most accustomed to the mischance of falling into adversity, and is most acceptably expounded with the grin that apes a smile. Being a blind faith, it is inaccessible to the light of disproof; an intellectual disorder, yielding to no treatment but death. It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious. -Ambrose Bierce

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything. -Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor and industrialist

We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising, and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while actually producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralisation. -Giauss Petronius

The nature of the universe loves nothing so much as to change things which are and to make new things like them. For everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be. -Marcus Aurelius A.D.66

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well. -Martin Luther King Jr.

What passes for optimism is most often the result of intellectual error. -Raymond Aron

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late. -Benjamin Franklin

The best proof of intelligent life in space is that they have never tried to contact us. -Unknown

That's great - I'm only seven wins away from my first grand slam title. -Justin Gimelstob, UCLA freshman, ranked 1,154 in the world, upon gaining a wildcard bid to the US Open Tennis Championships, 1995

If you knew how meat was made, you'd probably lose your lunch. I'm from cattle country. That's why I became a vegetarian. -K.D. Lang, singer and songwriter, magazine advertisement, 1990

I don't even now how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box. -Diana, English princess, 1994

When we perish from human memories we are no more. We are well and truly gone, as if we had never been. Stephen Coonts - "Cuba"

It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible. -Aristotle

But truth, especially human truth, is seldom all of a piece. Rather it's assembled from a dozen different facets. The more perspectives you are willing to consider, the more of truth you'll ultimately see. -Leonard Pitts

Life is the principle of self-renewal; it is constantly renewing and remaking and transfiguring itself...it is infinitely beyond any and all theories about it. -Unknown

In this world there is no truth, only many supposed truths. Each man has his own or appropriates another's, and this is why life is based on conflict. -Unknown

It truly doesn't matter what successes we may chalk up during our lives, if we fail as parents, we've failed at everything. If you raise a child without values or respect, then you are a person without values or respect, and that includes government and authority figures as well. We need to get back to the basics, the realities of home and family. -Unknown

We do have technology undreamed of in former times, and it is important. Yet it seems to be increasingly possible that, except for a tiny elite educated in the most expensive private schools or outside the country, Americans are in a danger of becoming technological barbarians, able to manipulate computers, to access the Internet, but perhaps unable to communicate with people in other countries or even to guess where they are, because we will be preoccupied only with wealth, clothing, sports, physical pleasure and utterly devoid of intellectual curiosity or achievement. -Unknown

CYNIC, n. a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. -Ambrose Pierce

Our greatest fear is that the Internet will become a vehicle of free distribution of information. -Ken Wasch, President of the Software Publishers' Association, 5 September 1995

Yesterday it worked. Today it is not working. Windows is like that. -Error Haiku

The desolate doorsteps where foxes crouch and those deserted terraces where rabbits ramble, might in olden days have been places for singing and dancing. There where yellow flowers are chilled by dew and where faded grass is obscured by mist, might once have been battlegrounds. Can prosperity and decline remain constant? Where are the victors and vanquished of old? -A Chinese Garden of Verses

It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out where the strong man stumbles, nor where the doer of deeds could have done them better. On the contrary, the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena - whose vision is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes up again and again; who knows the great devotions, the great enthusiasms; who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement. -Theodore Roosevelt

A man is a fool is he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward. -Frank Lloyd Wright

To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth amd Sun. But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual rings. -Clifton Fadiman

It's more fun to arrive at a conclusion than to justify it. -Malcolm S. Forbes

Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream. -Kahlil Gibran

Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny. -John Oliver Hobbes

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them. -E.V. Lucas

The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it. -Doug Larson

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. -A. A. Milne, author

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. -George Orwell, author

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. -Will Rogers, philosopher

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way. -Babe Ruth

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. - Buddha

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. - Albert Einstein

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. -Edward Abbey

Rugby is a beastly game played by gentlemen; soccer is a gentleman's game played by beasts; football is a beastly game played by beasts. -Henry Blaha

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is satire. All you're doing is recording it. -Art Buchwald

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. -Samuel Butler

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. -B. F. Skinner

Logic merely enables one to be wrong with authority. -Doctor Who

Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. -Kurt Vonnegut

Fanatacism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. -George Santayana

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. -Eric Hoffer

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. -Kin Hubbard

Our sympathies for humans and animals are highly selective. -Unknown

Dog's have owners. Cat's have staff. -Unknown

Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are God. -Unknown

Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of another. -Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

Within 20 years North, Central, and South America will become a federation - UCONCASA (United Countries of North, Central, and South America.) -Yodar Kritch

The one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, its a part of our past, it reminds us of all that once was good and can be again. -(Field of Dreams)

I have mixed feelings about hunters of wild game. I myself no longer have any desire whatsoever to hunt but nevertheless am not opposed to hunting for the reason hunted animals have a much better chance of survival than those who are killed (often under unspeakable conditions) in slaughterhouses where they have no chance at all. It is only fair that those who would condemn hunting should also condemn the killing that goes on in slaughterhouses, or else this is just hypocrisy on their part. Those who oppose the killing of animals (either by hunters or slaughterhouses) must by necessity become vegetarians if they are to be true to themselves. -Yodar Kritch

Individual games imprint on memory single images blazing as if from an illustrated text. -Call 'Em Right

As the ignorant scalpel can kill the body, so can ignorant refereeing kill the spirit of the athlete. -Call 'Em Right

The ultimate goal of mankind is to control all forces that may affect him. -Yodar Kritch

Justice, no matter how hard, must be admired; anything less is to be reviled - and avenged. -Eric Ludbuster

The squid's embrace, The leeches touch, Do you like the human race? No, not much. Keep out. This means you. -Aldous Huxley

ZEAL: A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. -Ambrose Bierce

I have something to say to the religionist who feels atheists never say anything positive: You are an intelligent human being. Your life is valuable for its own sake. You are not second-class in the universe, deriving meaning and purpose from some other mind. You are not inherently evil, you are inherently human, possessing the positive rational potential to help make this a world of morality, peace and joy. Trust yourself. -Dan Barker, "Losing Faith in Faith"

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. -Mao Tse-tung, revolutionary and party chairman

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. -Albert Schweitzer

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening all at once. -Unknown

Blessed are the young, for they will inherit the national debt. -Herbert Hoover.

I don't think I shall ever get over this. -Leigh Hunt, last words

I am more afraid of alcohol than of all the bullets of the enemy. -Gen. Stonewall Jackson

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. -John Lehman, US secretary of the Navy

Life is what happens while you are making other plans. -John Lennon, singer and songwriter

The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness. - John Muir

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence. -Henry Adams

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure. -Russel Baker

The word aerobics comes from two Greek words: aero, meaning "ability to," and bics, meaning "withstand tremendous boredom." -Dave Barry

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. -Ambrose Bierce

The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were. -David Brinkley

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of old ones. -John Cage

The tendency of an event to occur varies inversely with one's preparation for it. -David Searles

Why, they couldn't hit an elephant at this dis... -Gen. John Sedgewick, last words

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. -George Bernard Shaw

Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people. -George Bernard Shaw

All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom, I have been pouring van-loads of information into the vacancy of oblivion I call my mind. -Logan Pearsall Smith

We are all alike, on the inside. -Mark Twain

Too much of a good thing is wonderful. -Mae West

Experience is often what you get when you were expecting something else. -Unknown

Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many. -Unknown

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happinesss is assured. -Ambrose Bierce

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. -Confucius

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand. -Leonardo da Vinci

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. -Albert Einstein

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. -George Washington Carver, American inventor and horticulturist

I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of a hill. -Erma Bombeck

If you can't win, make the fellow ahead of you break the record. -Unknown

Take care that the face that looks out from the mirror in the morning is a pleasant face. You may not see it again during the day, but others will. -Unknown

Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you. -Yassir Arafat

Don't condescend to unskilled labor. Try it for half a day first. -Brooks Atkinson

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. -Marcus Aurelius

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack. -Unknown

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. -Francis Bacon

Avoid contradicting in general, especially people you love. -Maurice Baring

Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened. -Arnold Bennett

Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to. -Josh Billings

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. -Josh Billings

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it. -Napoleon Bonaparte

Always behave like a duck, keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. -Jacob Braude

Like the coral reef, Mankind builds on the bones of its dead. -Yodar Kritch

There are no mysteries in life; what you see is what there is. -Ezel B. Faxon

Many of us feel, at least sometime in our lives, that we will never realize the fulfillment of our dreams and ambitions. But discerning persons will realize that the needs of those closest to them, especially their children, must by necessity rule out total realization of these dreams and ambitions. -Yodar Kritch

To be ignorant of history is to always remain a child. -Cicero

Oh, that I had the wings of a dove! I would fly away and be at rest - I would flee far away and stay in the desert; I would hurry to my place of shelter, far from the tempest and storm. -Psalm 55:6-8

The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else. -Geoffrey Gaberino

It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read them. And if it's good enough, it will last as long as there are human beings. -Ernest Hemingway

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day. -Abraham Lincoln

If we want to make something really superb on this planet, there is nothing whatever that can stop us. -Shepherd Mead

We are manifestations only of order or chaos; agents, in some very direct sense. All else is illusion to keep us from discerning the truth. If there is a God it is he who lives within us. The cosmic clock measures not time (a human illusion) but the ever-shifting balance between order and chaos. In the end we must all make that one decision: which side will we fight to preserve? -Unknown

Meddle ye not in the affairs of wizards, For thou art crunchy and good with ketchup. -Unknown

You can get a lot more done with a kind word and a gun, than with a kind word alone. -Al Capone

Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so. -Lord Chesterfield

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with People. -Don Corleone, from The Godfather by Mario Puzo

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich. -Alan Alda

Money can't buy happiness; it can, however, rent it. -Unknown

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it. -Russell Baker

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. -Hector Berlioz

You can take a horse to drink but you can't make him water. -Yodar Kritch

Destiny. A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure. -Ambrose Bierce

An atheist is a man with no invisible means of support. -John Buchan

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. -James Branch Cabell, from The Silver Stallion

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But at fifty you get the face you deserve. -Coco Chanel

It is extraordinary how potent cheap music is. -Noel Coward

Be the first to say what is self-evident, and you are immortal. -M. Ebner-Eschenbach

The years betwen 50 and 70 are the hardest. You are always asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down. -T. S .Eliot

To die for an idea is to place a pretty high price on conjectures. -Anatole France, from The Revolt of the Angels

Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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