Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf 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 I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Recreation and Sports
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Recreation and Sports I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Recreation and Sports
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Recreation and Sports
Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Recreation and Sports Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports
"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) Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz 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 Unhappy Recreation and Sports "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
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"I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Recreation and Sports Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre 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 "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Recreation and Sports 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 I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Recreation and Sports
Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Recreation and Sports Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou 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 "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Recreation and Sports
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck 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 An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Recreation and Sports The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Recreation and Sports
Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Recreation and Sports The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Recreation and Sports
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 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 A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Recreation and Sports If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Recreation and Sports
