An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human 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 Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Recreation and Sports Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Recreation and Sports
"I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Recreation and Sports They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Recreation and Sports
Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Recreation and Sports Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Recreation and Sports
The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Recreation and Sports Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Recreation and Sports
"These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Recreation and Sports Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Recreation and Sports
Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Recreation and Sports Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Recreation and Sports
Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") 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 "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Recreation and Sports
"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 "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Recreation and Sports Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Recreation and Sports
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Recreation and Sports Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Recreation and Sports
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Recreation and Sports For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Recreation and Sports
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Recreation and Sports Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Recreation and Sports
