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-- T.S. Eliot The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
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-- Tom Lehrer I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Recreation and Sports If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Recreation and Sports
If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Recreation and Sports Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Recreation and Sports The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Recreation and Sports
A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Recreation and Sports Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Recreation and Sports
He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Recreation and Sports "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Recreation and Sports
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 Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Recreation and Sports Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Recreation and Sports
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Recreation and Sports Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Recreation and Sports
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Recreation and Sports
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Recreation and Sports Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Recreation and Sports
Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Recreation and Sports Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Recreation and Sports
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Recreation and Sports "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Recreation and Sports
