Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Recreation and Sports "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Recreation and Sports
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Recreation and Sports May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Recreation and Sports
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 "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Recreation and Sports To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Recreation and Sports
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl 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 you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Recreation and Sports
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Recreation and Sports "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Recreation and Sports
You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein 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 I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Recreation and Sports I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner 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. "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Recreation and Sports The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Recreation and Sports
"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying 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 Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Recreation and Sports Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Recreation and Sports See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Recreation and Sports
"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Recreation and Sports Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
