Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Recreation and Sports The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Recreation and Sports Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Recreation and Sports
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Recreation and Sports Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Recreation and Sports
Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Recreation and Sports We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow 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 They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Recreation and Sports
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Recreation and Sports The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports
Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Recreation and Sports Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright 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 Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Recreation and Sports Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Recreation and Sports
For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Recreation and Sports I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Recreation and Sports
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Recreation and Sports A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Recreation and Sports
May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Recreation and Sports Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Recreation and Sports
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Recreation and Sports It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Recreation and Sports
