"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Recreation and Sports
There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" "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 would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Recreation and Sports
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Recreation and Sports We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Recreation and Sports
"I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Recreation and Sports Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Recreation and Sports
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Recreation and Sports The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan "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) Recreation and Sports
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Recreation and Sports "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt 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 Recreation and Sports
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli 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 Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports 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 It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Recreation and Sports
"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West 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 Recreation and Sports I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 "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 Recreation and Sports
When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Recreation and Sports Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Recreation and Sports
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Recreation and Sports Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb 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, Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Recreation and Sports
"My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk 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 Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac "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 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 Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Recreation and Sports
