Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Recreation and Sports
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Recreation and Sports There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Recreation and Sports
Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Recreation and Sports I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Recreation and Sports If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Recreation and Sports
The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "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) "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Recreation and Sports Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Recreation and Sports
"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) To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Recreation and Sports "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Recreation and Sports
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Recreation and Sports A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Recreation and Sports
I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Recreation and Sports "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Recreation and Sports
"The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Recreation and Sports In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Recreation and Sports
May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Recreation and Sports
blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Recreation and Sports "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
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