Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Recreation and Sports Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Recreation and Sports
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Recreation and Sports I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Recreation and Sports
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Recreation and Sports "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Recreation and Sports
Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain 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) By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Recreation and Sports Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Recreation and Sports
"A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Recreation and Sports The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Recreation and Sports
What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau 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) "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Recreation and Sports Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Recreation and Sports Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Recreation and Sports
We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) 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 Recreation and Sports "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Recreation and Sports
"The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison 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 Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Recreation and Sports
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Recreation and Sports
