Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop "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) If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Recreation and Sports "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Recreation and Sports
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Recreation and Sports "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Recreation and Sports
When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken "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) "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Recreation and Sports The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Recreation and Sports
A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Recreation and Sports "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Recreation and Sports
The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Recreation and Sports Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Recreation and Sports
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) "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) Recreation and Sports To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "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) Recreation and Sports
I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "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) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Recreation and Sports "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Recreation and Sports
To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Recreation and Sports When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Recreation and Sports
We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Recreation and Sports Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Recreation and Sports
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) 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 Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Recreation and Sports Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Recreation and Sports
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Recreation and Sports "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel 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 Recreation and Sports
