The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Recreation and Sports If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Recreation and Sports
I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Recreation and Sports "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Recreation and Sports
"We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Recreation and Sports "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Recreation and Sports Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Recreation and Sports
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Recreation and Sports
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Man and wife make one fool. Recreation and Sports In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Recreation and Sports
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Recreation and Sports Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Recreation and Sports
"Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Recreation and Sports What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "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) Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports
"Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Recreation and Sports A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Recreation and Sports
I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Recreation and Sports "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Recreation and Sports
Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Recreation and Sports If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
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