"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) Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Recreation and Sports A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Recreation and Sports
This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Recreation and Sports Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Recreation and Sports
"I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Recreation and Sports
Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Recreation and Sports blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Recreation and Sports
Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Recreation and Sports Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports
"Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Recreation and Sports Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle 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
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I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Recreation and Sports "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Recreation and Sports
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Recreation and Sports Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Recreation and Sports
Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Recreation and Sports Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Recreation and Sports
"If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) 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 Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Recreation and Sports Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Recreation and Sports
