The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Recreation and Sports "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Recreation and Sports
"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Recreation and Sports Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Recreation and Sports
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign "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) "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..." ( It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Recreation and Sports By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Recreation and Sports
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Recreation and Sports Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Recreation and Sports
It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Recreation and Sports
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Recreation and Sports ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
"Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
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Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Recreation and Sports Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Recreation and Sports
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Recreation and Sports If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Recreation and Sports
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Recreation and Sports "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Recreation and Sports
Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Recreation and Sports Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Recreation and Sports
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Recreation and Sports If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Recreation and Sports
