"I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Recreation and Sports You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Recreation and Sports
Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Recreation and Sports "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau 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 you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Recreation and Sports "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde 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 Recreation and Sports
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Recreation and Sports "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Recreation and Sports
"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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. The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Recreation and Sports Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Recreation and Sports
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Recreation and Sports I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge "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) "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Recreation and Sports People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Recreation and Sports
I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker 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 Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Recreation and Sports "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Recreation and Sports
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Recreation and Sports The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Recreation and Sports
Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Recreation and Sports 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 Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Recreation and Sports
