The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Recreation and Sports Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Recreation and Sports
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Recreation and Sports Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Recreation and Sports
Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Recreation and Sports "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Recreation and Sports
Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Recreation and Sports Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
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He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Recreation and Sports "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) 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, Recreation and Sports
The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Recreation and Sports The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Recreation and Sports
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 It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Recreation and Sports "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Recreation and Sports
I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) "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 "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Recreation and Sports Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Recreation and Sports
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Recreation and Sports "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Recreation and Sports
Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Recreation and Sports It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Recreation and Sports
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Recreation and Sports
