If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Recreation and Sports If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Recreation and Sports
Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Recreation and Sports "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Recreation and Sports
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Recreation and Sports I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) 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
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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Recreation and Sports I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Recreation and Sports
Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Recreation and Sports Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Recreation and Sports
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Recreation and Sports "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Recreation and Sports
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Recreation and Sports If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Recreation and Sports
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Recreation and Sports The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Recreation and Sports
"Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Recreation and Sports "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Recreation and Sports
When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "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) The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Recreation and Sports It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Recreation and Sports
Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Recreation and Sports Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Recreation and Sports
