Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Recreation and Sports If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Recreation and Sports
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Recreation and Sports "... 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) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Recreation and Sports
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Recreation and Sports I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports
There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Recreation and Sports The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Recreation and Sports
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Recreation and Sports For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Recreation and Sports
The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Recreation and Sports The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports
"You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Recreation and Sports Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Recreation and Sports
He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Recreation and Sports Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Recreation and Sports
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith 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 In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Recreation and Sports MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Recreation and Sports
There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Recreation and Sports "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Recreation and Sports
I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Recreation and Sports I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Recreation and Sports
