All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Recreation and Sports Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Recreation and Sports
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Recreation and Sports "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Recreation and Sports
A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Recreation and Sports The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Recreation and Sports Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Recreation and Sports
Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Recreation and Sports "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
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Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling 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 The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Recreation and Sports "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Recreation and Sports
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Recreation and Sports Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Recreation and Sports
"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Recreation and Sports If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin 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 A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Recreation and Sports
I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Recreation and Sports I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Recreation and Sports
In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Recreation and Sports Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Recreation and Sports "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
