"Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Recreation and Sports The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Recreation and Sports
"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') When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Recreation and Sports Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Recreation and Sports Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Recreation and Sports
People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Recreation and Sports Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports What's new? Most of my wife. If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Recreation and Sports
This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Recreation and Sports Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "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
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 Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali 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 Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Recreation and Sports The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James 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 "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Recreation and Sports The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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 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) "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Recreation and Sports Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Recreation and Sports
"We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Recreation and Sports Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Recreation and Sports
