"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst "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) Recreation and Sports
Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Recreation and Sports My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Recreation and Sports
blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Recreation and Sports "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Recreation and Sports
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) 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 Recreation and Sports "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 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 Recreation and Sports
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous "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 backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Recreation and Sports He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Recreation and Sports If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Recreation and Sports
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Recreation and Sports No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Recreation and Sports
"Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Recreation and Sports "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Recreation and Sports
"I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show 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" Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Recreation and Sports We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Recreation and Sports
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show 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 All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
"Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Recreation and Sports They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
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