When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Recreation and Sports Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Recreation and Sports
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain 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 Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Recreation and Sports "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Recreation and Sports
"The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "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 "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Recreation and Sports If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) 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 I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Recreation and Sports "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Recreation and Sports
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Recreation and Sports "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Recreation and Sports In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Recreation and Sports
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Recreation and Sports "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem "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
For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Recreation and Sports
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Recreation and Sports The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Recreation and Sports
"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Recreation and Sports "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Recreation and Sports
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach 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 A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Recreation and Sports "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Recreation and Sports
