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It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Recreation and Sports "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Recreation and Sports
"Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Recreation and Sports Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Recreation and Sports
"A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Recreation and Sports Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) 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 Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Recreation and Sports "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Recreation and Sports
"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) 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 "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 We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Recreation and Sports If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Recreation and Sports
No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Recreation and Sports
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Recreation and Sports Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Recreation and Sports
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Recreation and Sports The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Recreation and Sports
"The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Recreation and Sports Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Recreation and Sports
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Recreation and Sports Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Recreation and Sports
The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good 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 Recreation and Sports Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Recreation and Sports
