The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham "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) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Recreation and Sports The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III 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 If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Recreation and Sports Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Recreation and Sports
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Recreation and Sports What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Recreation and Sports
The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Recreation and Sports "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Recreation and Sports
"Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Recreation and Sports We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Recreation and Sports
I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Recreation and Sports Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Recreation and Sports
Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Recreation and Sports "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Recreation and Sports
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Recreation and Sports "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Recreation and Sports
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard 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 "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Recreation and Sports
"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Recreation and Sports "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Recreation and Sports
I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Recreation and Sports
