"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Recreation and Sports The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Marriage is a rest period between romances. If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Recreation and Sports
Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain 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 What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Recreation and Sports The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Recreation and Sports 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 Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Recreation and Sports
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Recreation and Sports Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Recreation and Sports
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Recreation and Sports There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Recreation and Sports
Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Recreation and Sports I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Recreation and Sports
This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Recreation and Sports The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Recreation and Sports
Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Recreation and Sports Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Recreation and Sports
"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Recreation and Sports >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Recreation and Sports
Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Recreation and Sports Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Recreation and Sports
Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Recreation and Sports Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Recreation and Sports
