You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Recreation and Sports "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) 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 Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Recreation and Sports blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous 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
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Recreation and Sports When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Recreation and Sports
'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Recreation and Sports The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Recreation and Sports
My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Recreation and Sports
The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston 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 A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Recreation and Sports Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Recreation and Sports
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 He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes "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) Recreation and Sports
"We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Recreation and Sports It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Recreation and Sports
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Recreation and Sports A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Recreation and Sports
It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Recreation and Sports The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Recreation and Sports
Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Recreation and Sports "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Recreation and Sports
