After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Recreation and Sports You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford 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.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Recreation and Sports
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Recreation and Sports If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Recreation and Sports
"Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Recreation and Sports "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Recreation and Sports
'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Recreation and Sports There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Recreation and Sports
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Recreation and Sports A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Recreation and Sports
"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Recreation and Sports Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Recreation and Sports
None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Recreation and Sports Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Recreation and Sports
Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Recreation and Sports The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Recreation and Sports
A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Recreation and Sports My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Recreation and Sports "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Recreation and Sports
The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. My other wife is beautiful. Recreation and Sports
