The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Recreation and Sports "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Recreation and Sports
If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Recreation and Sports A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Recreation and Sports
I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch "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) When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Recreation and Sports When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed "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 He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Recreation and Sports
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Recreation and Sports Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Recreation and Sports
"My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Recreation and Sports My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Recreation and Sports
We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Recreation and Sports I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Recreation and Sports
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Recreation and Sports If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Recreation and Sports
Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Recreation and Sports The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and 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 Recreation and Sports
Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Recreation and Sports When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Recreation and Sports
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 "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Recreation and Sports
How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Recreation and Sports Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Recreation and Sports
