"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Recreation and Sports There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Recreation and Sports
The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge "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) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Recreation and Sports It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Recreation and Sports
History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Recreation and Sports Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Recreation and Sports
"Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Recreation and Sports The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Recreation and Sports
"As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "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) Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Recreation and Sports "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Recreation and Sports
Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Recreation and Sports A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Recreation and Sports
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Recreation and Sports Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Recreation and Sports
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Recreation and Sports "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Recreation and Sports
"Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Recreation and Sports It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
"A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) 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 A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Recreation and Sports Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Recreation and Sports Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Recreation and Sports
