It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Recreation and Sports "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Recreation and Sports
Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Recreation and Sports "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Recreation and Sports
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Recreation and Sports If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Recreation and Sports
Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) 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 Recreation and Sports Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Recreation and Sports
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Recreation and Sports In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Recreation and Sports
Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Recreation and Sports "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Recreation and Sports
"The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports
The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Recreation and Sports "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Recreation and Sports
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince 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 "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Recreation and Sports The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Recreation and Sports
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Recreation and Sports
Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Recreation and Sports Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Recreation and Sports
