"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Recreation and Sports The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Recreation and Sports
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Recreation and Sports My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Recreation and Sports
Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Recreation and Sports UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Recreation and Sports
Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel 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" Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Recreation and Sports "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Recreation and Sports
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Recreation and Sports
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Recreation and Sports Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Recreation and Sports
Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Recreation and Sports Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Recreation and Sports
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Recreation and Sports "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Recreation and Sports
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making 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 Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Recreation and Sports I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Recreation and Sports
Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek 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 "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Recreation and Sports Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Recreation and Sports
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) 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 Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Recreation and Sports "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Recreation and Sports
