I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 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 A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Recreation and Sports "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Recreation and Sports
I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Recreation and Sports A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Recreation and Sports
"I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Recreation and Sports The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Recreation and Sports
If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain 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 Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Recreation and Sports
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Recreation and Sports A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Recreation and Sports
Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth "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) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Recreation and Sports Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Recreation and Sports We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Recreation and Sports
History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Recreation and Sports Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Recreation and Sports
Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Recreation and Sports
"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Recreation and Sports
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Recreation and Sports Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Recreation and Sports
