Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Recreation and Sports "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Recreation and Sports
My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Recreation and Sports No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Recreation and Sports
Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Recreation and Sports This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Recreation and Sports
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Recreation and Sports A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Recreation and Sports
"Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Recreation and Sports Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Recreation and Sports
Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Recreation and Sports Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Recreation and Sports
"And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Recreation and Sports "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) 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 If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Recreation and Sports
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Recreation and Sports No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Recreation and Sports
"We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain "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) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Recreation and Sports "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) Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Recreation and Sports
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Recreation and Sports "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Recreation and Sports
"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Recreation and Sports They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Recreation and Sports
