"One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Recreation and Sports "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Recreation and Sports Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Recreation and Sports
"Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Recreation and Sports
"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 Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Recreation and Sports They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Recreation and Sports
"I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Recreation and Sports "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Recreation and Sports
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos 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 History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Recreation and Sports
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Recreation and Sports Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Recreation and Sports Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson 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
"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Recreation and Sports
Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Recreation and Sports Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Recreation and Sports
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Recreation and Sports Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Recreation and Sports
