University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Recreation and Sports If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Recreation and Sports
Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Recreation and Sports A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Recreation and Sports
We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Recreation and Sports "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) 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 Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Recreation and Sports
"The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Recreation and Sports The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Recreation and Sports
He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Recreation and Sports Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Recreation and Sports
Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Recreation and Sports
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 History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Recreation and Sports Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Recreation and Sports
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Recreation and Sports We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Recreation and Sports
The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Recreation and Sports "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Recreation and Sports
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Recreation and Sports Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA 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 All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Recreation and Sports
The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Recreation and Sports Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Recreation and Sports
