In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Recreation and Sports Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Recreation and Sports
In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Recreation and Sports It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Recreation and Sports
Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Recreation and Sports One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Recreation and Sports
"The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Recreation and Sports
"All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Recreation and Sports Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Recreation and Sports
"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow 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 I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. 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 Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Recreation and Sports
There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Recreation and Sports Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Recreation and Sports
My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Recreation and Sports He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Recreation and Sports
"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Recreation and Sports Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Recreation and Sports
No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "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) The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Recreation and Sports
There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Recreation and Sports Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons 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 "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Recreation and Sports
