Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Recreation and Sports Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Recreation and Sports
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Recreation and Sports The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Recreation and Sports
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Recreation and Sports Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Recreation and Sports
The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Recreation and Sports The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Recreation and Sports
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Recreation and Sports "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Recreation and Sports
A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Recreation and Sports Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Recreation and Sports
In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Recreation and Sports If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Recreation and Sports
What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi 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 hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Recreation and Sports Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Recreation and Sports
"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) 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 In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Recreation and Sports If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Recreation and Sports
A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous 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 Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Recreation and Sports There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Recreation and Sports
"Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper "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) We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Recreation and Sports For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Recreation and Sports
