If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Recreation and Sports Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Recreation and Sports
"We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Recreation and Sports How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Recreation and Sports
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Recreation and Sports "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Recreation and Sports Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Recreation and Sports
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Recreation and Sports I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Recreation and Sports
"I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Recreation and Sports Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Recreation and Sports
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Recreation and Sports When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Recreation and Sports
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) 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 "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Recreation and Sports "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Recreation and Sports
"God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Recreation and Sports
A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Recreation and Sports We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Recreation and Sports
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov "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 Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Recreation and Sports
