"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Recreation and Sports
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Recreation and Sports Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Recreation and Sports
Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt 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 You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports "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) I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Recreation and Sports
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Recreation and Sports You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "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 Recreation and Sports
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Recreation and Sports Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Recreation and Sports
Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Recreation and Sports blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Recreation and Sports
"Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Recreation and Sports It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Recreation and Sports Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Recreation and Sports
If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) Recreation and Sports "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Recreation and Sports
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Recreation and Sports To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Recreation and Sports
We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Recreation and Sports The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Recreation and Sports
