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Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Recreation and Sports A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Recreation and Sports
When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Recreation and Sports Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Recreation and Sports
Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Recreation and Sports I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Recreation and Sports
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Recreation and Sports Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Recreation and Sports
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Recreation and Sports Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Recreation and Sports
Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Recreation and Sports "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Recreation and Sports
When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Recreation and Sports "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Recreation and Sports Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Recreation and Sports
The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Recreation and Sports Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Recreation and Sports
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Recreation and Sports "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cĉsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Recreation and Sports
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Recreation and Sports Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Recreation and Sports
