"One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Recreation and Sports "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Recreation and Sports
We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Recreation and Sports "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Recreation and Sports
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Recreation and Sports Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Recreation and Sports
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Recreation and Sports A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Recreation and Sports
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? 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 blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Recreation and Sports Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Recreation and Sports Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Recreation and Sports
I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Recreation and Sports "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Recreation and Sports
"To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Recreation and Sports To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Recreation and Sports
Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Recreation and Sports Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle 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' To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Recreation and Sports You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Recreation and Sports
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 Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Recreation and Sports It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
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