It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Recreation and Sports When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Recreation and Sports
When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Recreation and Sports Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Recreation and Sports
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Recreation and Sports It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Recreation and Sports
To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "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." "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Recreation and Sports I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Recreation and Sports
An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Recreation and Sports To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Recreation and Sports Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Recreation and Sports
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Recreation and Sports With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Recreation and Sports
In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Recreation and Sports Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Recreation and Sports
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "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 Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Recreation and Sports
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Recreation and Sports "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Recreation and Sports
You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern "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) The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Recreation and Sports Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Recreation and Sports
