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promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Recreation and Sports cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Recreation and Sports
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Recreation and Sports I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Recreation and Sports
When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Recreation and Sports Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Recreation and Sports
"What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Recreation and Sports To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Recreation and Sports
Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Recreation and Sports Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Recreation and Sports
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 Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Recreation and Sports "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Recreation and Sports
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Recreation and Sports I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Recreation and Sports
Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Recreation and Sports
"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) 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 Recreation and Sports The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Recreation and Sports
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 Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Recreation and Sports An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Recreation and Sports
It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Recreation and Sports Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Recreation and Sports
