Watching football is like watching pornography. There's plenty of action, and I can't take my eyes off it, but when it's over, I wonder why the hell I spent an afternoon doing it.

For a member to say, 'I'm a lame duck' violates political science 101.

Charles Rangel

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I'm one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I'm waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside.

Francesca Annis

The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games.

Eugene Jarvis

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

Leo Tolstoy

Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing.

Edward W. Howe

All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.

Herodotus

As god is my witness, it was never my intent to throw out the constitution. I thought it was hanging by a thread, and I could save it... You don't save it by cutting that thread. - President Nielson

Orson Scott Card

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.

Edgar Allan Poe

Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every shrub and tree has its gall, oftentimes esteemed its chief ornament and hardly to be distinguished from the fruit. If misery loves company, misery has company enough. Now, at midsummer, find me a perfect leaf or fruit.

Henry David Thoreau

Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television.

Andrew Ross