My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Recreation and Sports Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Recreation and Sports
"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Recreation and Sports I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Recreation and Sports
Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Recreation and Sports
"Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Recreation and Sports There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Recreation and Sports
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall 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 Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Recreation and Sports He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Recreation and Sports
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Recreation and Sports There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Recreation and Sports
Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Recreation and Sports 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
time Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Recreation and Sports
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Recreation and Sports If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Recreation and Sports
He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Recreation and Sports Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock 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 If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Recreation and Sports
"Think off-center." (George Carlin) To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Recreation and Sports That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Recreation and Sports
"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Recreation and Sports Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Recreation and Sports
