Stockholm Summer Games - Youth sports event. Includes participant activities and a food and lodging guide.
America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Recreation and Sports Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Recreation and Sports
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Recreation and Sports Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Recreation and Sports
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
House blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Recreation and Sports Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Recreation and Sports Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Recreation and Sports
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Recreation and Sports A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Recreation and Sports
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "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 He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Recreation and Sports
If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Recreation and Sports I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
"Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Recreation and Sports We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Recreation and Sports
I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Recreation and Sports Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Recreation and Sports
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Recreation and Sports 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
House Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Recreation and Sports
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Recreation and Sports If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports
