"Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Recreation and Sports "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Recreation and Sports
Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Recreation and Sports Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance "... 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) Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Recreation and Sports
"Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Recreation and Sports 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' All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Recreation and Sports
If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
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--Malcolm X See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Recreation and Sports If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Recreation and Sports
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Recreation and Sports God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett 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" In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Recreation and Sports
If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric "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) Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Recreation and Sports When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Recreation and Sports Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Recreation and Sports
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Recreation and Sports Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Recreation and Sports
"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
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-- Fran Lebowitz Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Recreation and Sports You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Recreation and Sports
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Recreation and Sports Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat 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 Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Recreation and Sports
blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Recreation and Sports Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Recreation and Sports
