Spartathlon - Annual historic ultra-distance race of 246 km, starting in Athens and finishing in Sparta. Provides news, history of the event, race calendar, map route, and history.
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Running I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Running
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Running "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Running
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Running "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Running
Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Running To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Running
"The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Running When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Running
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Running I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Running
The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Running Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Running
If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Running blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Running
He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Running Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Running
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Running "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Running
Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "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) The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Running In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Running
