Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull "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) MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Recreation and Sports "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Recreation and Sports
"Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Recreation and Sports "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) It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Recreation and Sports "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Recreation and Sports
Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Recreation and Sports He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Recreation and Sports
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Recreation and Sports Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "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) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Recreation and Sports
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Recreation and Sports "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Recreation and Sports
Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer 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 could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Recreation and Sports There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Recreation and Sports
"Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t 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 "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Recreation and Sports Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Recreation and Sports
Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Recreation and Sports Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Recreation and Sports
Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Recreation and Sports
"If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Recreation and Sports Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Recreation and Sports
