Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Recreation and Sports There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Recreation and Sports
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Recreation and Sports In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Recreation and Sports
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Recreation and Sports "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
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Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Recreation and Sports It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Recreation and Sports
blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Recreation and Sports If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Recreation and Sports
The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous "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) Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Recreation and Sports Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Recreation and Sports
"Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Recreation and Sports It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Recreation and Sports
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 do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger "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 blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Recreation and Sports
"The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Recreation and Sports Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry 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 Recreation and Sports
In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Recreation and Sports The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Recreation and Sports
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic 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 Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Recreation and Sports "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Recreation and Sports
