"Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Recreation and Sports
The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Recreation and Sports If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Recreation and Sports
Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Recreation and Sports If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Recreation and Sports
This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Recreation and Sports I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Recreation and Sports People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Recreation and Sports
When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Recreation and Sports blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Recreation and Sports
The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Recreation and Sports There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Recreation and Sports
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Recreation and Sports A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Recreation and Sports
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Recreation and Sports Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Recreation and Sports
blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) 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 Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Recreation and Sports This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Recreation and Sports
It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p 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, 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 Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Recreation and Sports
