"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Recreation and Sports Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Recreation and Sports Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Recreation and Sports
"A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Recreation and Sports Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Recreation and Sports We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
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It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel 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 The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Recreation and Sports blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Recreation and Sports
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Recreation and Sports We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Recreation and Sports
"Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Recreation and Sports I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Recreation and Sports
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Recreation and Sports "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports
To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer 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 Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Recreation and Sports
With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Recreation and Sports "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Recreation and Sports
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports "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 If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Recreation and Sports
