I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. What's new? Most of my wife. "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Recreation and Sports The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Recreation and Sports
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Recreation and Sports We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Recreation and Sports
blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Recreation and Sports When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Recreation and Sports
"When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Recreation and Sports "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Recreation and Sports
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Recreation and Sports The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Recreation and Sports I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Recreation and Sports
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Recreation and Sports "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Recreation and Sports
To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Recreation and Sports There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Recreation and Sports
Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Recreation and Sports To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Recreation and Sports
If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Recreation and Sports Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Recreation and Sports
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Recreation and Sports If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis 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 Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Recreation and Sports
