"Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Recreation and Sports The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Recreation and Sports
Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Recreation and Sports I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Recreation and Sports
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Recreation and Sports The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Recreation and Sports
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Recreation and Sports The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Recreation and Sports
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. 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 The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Recreation and Sports
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Recreation and Sports The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Recreation and Sports
I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Recreation and Sports
Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Recreation and Sports I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Recreation and Sports
"I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Recreation and Sports The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Recreation and Sports
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "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 Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Recreation and Sports Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses 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 Recreation and Sports We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
