The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Recreation and Sports "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Recreation and Sports
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Recreation and Sports
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Recreation and Sports There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Recreation and Sports
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Recreation and Sports Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Recreation and Sports
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Recreation and Sports In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Recreation and Sports Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Recreation and Sports
"... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Recreation and Sports Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports
We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) "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 We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Recreation and Sports Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Recreation and Sports
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Recreation and Sports It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Recreation and Sports
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Recreation and Sports "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
