The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Recreation and Sports There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire 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 Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Recreation and Sports Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Recreation and Sports
"An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Recreation and Sports I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Recreation and Sports
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Recreation and Sports Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Recreation and Sports
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Recreation and Sports I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Recreation and Sports
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Recreation and Sports "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Recreation and Sports
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Recreation and Sports Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Recreation and Sports
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "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) Recreation and Sports "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Recreation and Sports
The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Recreation and Sports A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Recreation and Sports
"Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) 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 I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S 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 Recreation and Sports For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Recreation and Sports
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Recreation and Sports There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Recreation and Sports
