Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Recreation and Sports Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
"To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Recreation and Sports Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason 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.
-- Crowf Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Recreation and Sports
My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Recreation and Sports Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Recreation and Sports
"Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen 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 Recreation and Sports
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Recreation and Sports Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Recreation and Sports
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Recreation and Sports A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Recreation and Sports
The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Recreation and Sports Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Recreation and Sports
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Recreation and Sports "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Recreation and Sports Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Recreation and Sports
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Recreation and Sports "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Recreation and Sports
"When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Recreation and Sports Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Recreation and Sports
