One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Recreation and Sports "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Recreation and Sports
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Recreation and Sports Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Recreation and Sports
Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde "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 We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Recreation and Sports For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Recreation and Sports
"Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Recreation and Sports "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Recreation and Sports
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard 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 I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel 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 Recreation and Sports
Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Recreation and Sports "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) 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.
-- Crow My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. 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 True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Recreation and Sports It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Recreation and Sports
These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Recreation and Sports It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Recreation and Sports
Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock 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 "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Recreation and Sports Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Recreation and Sports
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 Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Recreation and Sports We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche 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 The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Recreation and Sports
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Recreation and Sports My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Recreation and Sports
