Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Recreation and Sports Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Recreation and Sports
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Recreation and Sports Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Recreation and Sports
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Recreation and Sports "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports
[You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley 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 Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Recreation and Sports There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Recreation and Sports
Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Recreation and Sports He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Recreation and Sports
"One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Recreation and Sports We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard 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 "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Recreation and Sports God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Recreation and Sports
"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Recreation and Sports If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Recreation and Sports
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Recreation and Sports Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Recreation and Sports
"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Recreation and Sports That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Recreation and Sports
"The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Recreation and Sports When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway "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' "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Recreation and Sports
