Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Recreation and Sports
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Recreation and Sports Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Recreation and Sports
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "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) If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Recreation and Sports Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Recreation and Sports
The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Recreation and Sports Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Recreation and Sports
Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Recreation and Sports I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Recreation and Sports
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Recreation and Sports It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Recreation and Sports
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Recreation and Sports "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) 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 Recreation and Sports
He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Recreation and Sports In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Recreation and Sports
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Recreation and Sports Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Recreation and Sports
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Recreation and Sports Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Recreation and Sports
Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Recreation and Sports "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Recreation and Sports
