"Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) 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 Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre 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 Recreation and Sports The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Recreation and Sports
There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Recreation and Sports 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 "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Recreation and Sports
"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Recreation and Sports Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Recreation and Sports
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Recreation and Sports Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Recreation and Sports
"It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Recreation and Sports It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Recreation and Sports
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Recreation and Sports Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Recreation and Sports
"Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Recreation and Sports The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Recreation and Sports
Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Recreation and Sports The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Recreation and Sports
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Recreation and Sports "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 I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Recreation and Sports
If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Recreation and Sports Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "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) Recreation and Sports
"When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Recreation and Sports
