"How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Recreation and Sports Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) 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
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A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken 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 Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Recreation and Sports Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Recreation and Sports
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Recreation and Sports 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. Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Recreation and Sports
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Recreation and Sports Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Recreation and Sports
"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) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Recreation and Sports "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Recreation and Sports
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Recreation and Sports Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Recreation and Sports
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Recreation and Sports A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Recreation and Sports
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Recreation and Sports There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Recreation and Sports
"Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Recreation and Sports
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Recreation and Sports "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Recreation and Sports Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
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