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"We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle 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 blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Recreation and Sports
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Recreation and Sports Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Recreation and Sports
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Recreation and Sports "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 Recreation and Sports
Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Recreation and Sports Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Recreation and Sports
Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Recreation and Sports Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Recreation and Sports
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really 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 "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Recreation and Sports "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Recreation and Sports
Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance "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 No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Recreation and Sports "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken 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
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 "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Recreation and Sports Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Recreation and Sports
Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Recreation and Sports "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Recreation and Sports
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Recreation and Sports Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Recreation and Sports
Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Recreation and Sports May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
