I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Recreation and Sports "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Recreation and Sports
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Recreation and Sports I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Recreation and Sports
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Recreation and Sports Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 Recreation and Sports
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Recreation and Sports Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Recreation and Sports
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Recreation and Sports "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Recreation and Sports The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Recreation and Sports
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. 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 Recreation and Sports Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Recreation and Sports
There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Recreation and Sports
"I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Recreation and Sports blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Recreation and Sports
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Recreation and Sports For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Recreation and Sports
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Recreation and Sports your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Recreation and Sports
