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"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Recreation and Sports In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports
"Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) 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 Recreation and Sports God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Recreation and Sports
Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Recreation and Sports The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Recreation and Sports
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Recreation and Sports "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) 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 It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Recreation and Sports
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Recreation and Sports I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Recreation and Sports
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Recreation and Sports
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Recreation and Sports
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Recreation and Sports
"Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Recreation and Sports Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Recreation and Sports
"Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Recreation and Sports
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Recreation and Sports A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Recreation and Sports
