The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Recreation and Sports The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Recreation and Sports
In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Recreation and Sports Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Recreation and Sports blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Recreation and Sports
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Recreation and Sports Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Recreation and Sports
If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Recreation and Sports then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Recreation and Sports
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Recreation and Sports The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board What's new? Most of my wife. Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Recreation and Sports "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Recreation and Sports 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 Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Recreation and Sports
"For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Recreation and Sports "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) Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Recreation and Sports
"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Recreation and Sports Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Recreation and Sports
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Recreation and Sports "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Recreation and Sports
