"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet 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 How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Recreation and Sports The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Recreation and Sports
We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Recreation and Sports People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Recreation and Sports
"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Recreation and Sports "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to 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. "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Recreation and Sports
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Recreation and Sports "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Recreation and Sports
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Recreation and Sports The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Recreation and Sports I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Recreation and Sports
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Recreation and Sports
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Recreation and Sports The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright 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 "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Recreation and Sports Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Recreation and Sports
In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Recreation and Sports Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Recreation and Sports
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Recreation and Sports Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Recreation and Sports
