May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Recreation and Sports Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Recreation and Sports
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) "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 Recreation and Sports Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Recreation and Sports
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Recreation and Sports It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Recreation and Sports
He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Recreation and Sports "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Recreation and Sports
The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Recreation and Sports You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton "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) I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Recreation and Sports
A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" 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 Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Recreation and Sports Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Recreation and Sports
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Recreation and Sports "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Recreation and Sports
Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Recreation and Sports
English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Recreation and Sports "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Recreation and Sports
Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Recreation and Sports Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard "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) Recreation and Sports
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Recreation and Sports I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports
