"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Recreation and Sports Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Recreation and Sports A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Recreation and Sports
If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Recreation and Sports "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) People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Recreation and Sports
"I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Recreation and Sports
He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Recreation and Sports Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Recreation and Sports
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright 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 "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Recreation and Sports
Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Recreation and Sports The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "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
He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Recreation and Sports Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Recreation and Sports
"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Recreation and Sports "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 Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
"Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Recreation and Sports Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Recreation and Sports
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) ... 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
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright 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 Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Recreation and Sports
