The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Recreation and Sports He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Recreation and Sports
Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Recreation and Sports 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 Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Recreation and Sports What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Recreation and Sports
blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Recreation and Sports Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. 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 Recreation and Sports
I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Recreation and Sports "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports
Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports 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 "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Recreation and Sports
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Recreation and Sports "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Recreation and Sports
Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Recreation and Sports If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Recreation and Sports
I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara "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 If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Recreation and Sports We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Recreation and Sports
What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Recreation and Sports I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Recreation and Sports
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Recreation and Sports Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski 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
