"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Recreation and Sport Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos 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 Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Recreation and Sport
"As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "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 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 Recreation and Sport You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Recreation and Sport
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Recreation and Sport I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Recreation and Sport
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Recreation and Sport Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Recreation and Sport
"College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W "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 Recreation and Sport The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Recreation and Sport
Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sport "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Recreation and Sport
"Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Recreation and Sport "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar 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 Recreation and Sport
I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Recreation and Sport My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Recreation and Sport
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Recreation and Sport He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Recreation and Sport
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Recreation and Sport Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Recreation and Sport
Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Recreation and Sport Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Recreation and Sport
