I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Recreation and Sports Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Recreation and Sports
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Recreation and Sports "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Recreation and Sports Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Recreation and Sports
"The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman 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 I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Recreation and Sports "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Recreation and Sports
Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. 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 Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Recreation and Sports Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Recreation and Sports
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben 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,
Recreation and Sports "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) 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 The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Recreation and Sports
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Recreation and Sports Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Recreation and Sports
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Recreation and Sports If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Recreation and Sports
The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken 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" Recreation and Sports Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Recreation and Sports
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Recreation and Sports I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Recreation and Sports
I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Recreation and Sports
