Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Recreation and Sports "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Recreation and Sports To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Recreation and Sports
"If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Recreation and Sports I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Recreation and Sports
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Recreation and Sports "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Recreation and Sports
Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Recreation and Sports Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Recreation and Sports
blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Recreation and Sports Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Recreation and Sports
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain "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) Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Recreation and Sports When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Recreation and Sports
blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Recreation and Sports An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Recreation and Sports
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Recreation and Sports The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Recreation and Sports
Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Recreation and Sports Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Recreation and Sports
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) 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 If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Recreation and Sports The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Recreation and Sports
