Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "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) Recreation and Sports What's new? Most of my wife. One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Recreation and Sports
"Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Recreation and Sports Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Recreation and Sports
>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 Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Recreation and Sports I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Recreation and Sports
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Recreation and Sports The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Recreation and Sports
Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael 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 Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Recreation and Sports If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Recreation and Sports
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Recreation and Sports The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Recreation and Sports
"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) I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Recreation and Sports Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Recreation and Sports
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Recreation and Sports Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Recreation and Sports
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Recreation and Sports He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Recreation and Sports
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Recreation and Sports ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Recreation and Sports
Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 Recreation and Sports Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
