Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Recreation and Sports In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
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My other wife is beautiful. We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Recreation and Sports We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
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-- Abraham Maslow Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Recreation and Sports
You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein 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 I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Recreation and Sports
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Recreation and Sports I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
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-- Benjamin Franklin Recreation and Sports
"Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) You can observe a lot by watching.
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-- Baskins Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Recreation and Sports
Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
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-- D. H. Lawrence Recreation and Sports Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
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-- Woody Allen "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
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"The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n 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 Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Recreation and Sports "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Recreation and Sports
"It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Recreation and Sports Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
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-- Albert Einstein Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Recreation and Sports
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Recreation and Sports "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth 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 Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Recreation and Sports
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Recreation and Sports Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs 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 We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
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-- Pablo Picasso, dying words cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Recreation and Sports Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
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