If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Recreation and Sports Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Recreation and Sports "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Recreation and Sports
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Recreation and Sports 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 My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Recreation and Sports
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) 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 "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Recreation and Sports Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Recreation and Sports
Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Marriage is a rest period between romances. The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Recreation and Sports "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec 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 Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Recreation and Sports What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Recreation and Sports
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Recreation and Sports 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 I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Recreation and Sports
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Recreation and Sports I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Recreation and Sports
"I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Recreation and Sports
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Recreation and Sports If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur 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 What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Recreation and Sports A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Recreation and Sports
