"Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Recreation and Sports Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Recreation and Sports
Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Recreation and Sports
"We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Recreation and Sports In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Recreation and Sports
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Recreation and Sports If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Recreation and Sports
Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Recreation and Sports "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Recreation and Sports
A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland 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) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle 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 I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Recreation and Sports I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Recreation and Sports
Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France 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 The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Recreation and Sports "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Recreation and Sports
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel 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 Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
"Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Recreation and Sports We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Recreation and Sports
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Recreation and Sports
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Recreation and Sports It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Recreation and Sports
"If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Recreation and Sports "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Recreation and Sports
