"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Recreation and Sports When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Recreation and Sports
"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 In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Recreation and Sports "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) Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Recreation and Sports
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Recreation and Sports "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Recreation and Sports
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Recreation and Sports If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Recreation and Sports
All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Recreation and Sports "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Recreation and Sports
"I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Recreation and Sports "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Recreation and Sports
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Recreation and Sports Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Recreation and Sports
I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus "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 "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Recreation and Sports "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) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Recreation and Sports
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 I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Recreation and Sports You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Recreation and Sports
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Recreation and Sports An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Recreation and Sports
Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Recreation and Sports The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Recreation and Sports
