"Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Recreation and Sports The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Recreation and Sports 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) Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Recreation and Sports
"I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Recreation and Sports It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi 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 "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Recreation and Sports
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) "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) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Recreation and Sports "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Recreation and Sports
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Recreation and Sports The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Recreation and Sports
"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Recreation and Sports
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Recreation and Sports "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) 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) Recreation and Sports
"Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Recreation and Sports The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Recreation and Sports
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan 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 "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Recreation and Sports Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Recreation and Sports We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Recreation and Sports
Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married 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 Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Recreation and Sports "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) 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 A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Recreation and Sports
