Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Recreation and Sports >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Recreation and Sports
Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Recreation and Sports After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Recreation and Sports
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal 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 When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Recreation and Sports
"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Recreation and Sports "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Recreation and Sports
If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Recreation and Sports Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Recreation and Sports
Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Recreation and Sports
"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Recreation and Sports There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky "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) Recreation and Sports
Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Recreation and Sports "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Recreation and Sports
Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Recreation and Sports All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
"It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Recreation and Sports Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Recreation and Sports
