The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Recreation and Sports There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Recreation and Sports
2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Recreation and Sports An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Recreation and Sports
Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Recreation and Sports Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Recreation and Sports
What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Recreation and Sports Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Recreation and Sports
If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Recreation and Sports The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Recreation and Sports
There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Recreation and Sports
When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Recreation and Sports Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery 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) Recreation and Sports When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Recreation and Sports
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles 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 Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Recreation and Sports Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Recreation and Sports
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Recreation and Sports One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Recreation and Sports
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Recreation and Sports In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Recreation and Sports
