The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Recreation and Sports I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Recreation and Sports
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Recreation and Sports Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Recreation and Sports I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Recreation and Sports
"Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Recreation and Sports Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Recreation and Sports
When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Recreation and Sports An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Recreation and Sports
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. 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 The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Recreation and Sports
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford "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) A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Recreation and Sports "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Recreation and Sports
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Recreation and Sports Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Recreation and Sports
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) 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 Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Recreation and Sports Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Recreation and Sports
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Recreation and Sports Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Recreation and Sports
Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Recreation and Sports To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Recreation and Sports
