Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Recreation and Sports "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Recreation and Sports
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Recreation and Sports Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Recreation and Sports
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Recreation and Sports The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Recreation and Sports
The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Recreation and Sports He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) "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) Recreation and Sports
"Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Recreation and Sports Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Recreation and Sports
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Recreation and Sports Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Recreation and Sports
Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Recreation and Sports "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Recreation and Sports
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Recreation and Sports Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Recreation and Sports When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
"Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Recreation and Sports Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Recreation and Sports
