I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Recreation and Sports "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Recreation and Sports
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Recreation and Sports Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Recreation and Sports
I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Recreation and Sports
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Recreation and Sports If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Recreation and Sports
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Recreation and Sports Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Recreation and Sports
There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Recreation and Sports Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Recreation and Sports
The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Recreation and Sports Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Recreation and Sports
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Recreation and Sports You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Recreation and Sports
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Recreation and Sports "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) 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 Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Recreation and Sports
"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Recreation and Sports The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Recreation and Sports
"When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Recreation and Sports It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports
