Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Recreation and Sports When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Recreation and Sports
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb 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 Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Recreation and Sports
And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Recreation and Sports Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Recreation and Sports
"The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Recreation and Sports "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Recreation and Sports
Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Recreation and Sports All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Recreation and Sports
And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Recreation and Sports I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Recreation and Sports
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Recreation and Sports When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
"Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Recreation and Sports
The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Recreation and Sports "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Recreation and Sports
Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Recreation and Sports I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Recreation and Sports
This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) "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) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Recreation and Sports "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Recreation and Sports
When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Recreation and Sports The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Recreation and Sports
