All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard 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" Recreation and Sports May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Recreation and Sports
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Recreation and Sports "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Recreation and Sports
"It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Recreation and Sports Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Recreation and Sports
Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Recreation and Sports A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Recreation and Sports
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Recreation and Sports "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Recreation and Sports
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Recreation and Sports Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Recreation and Sports
There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Recreation and Sports We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Recreation and Sports
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Recreation and Sports To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
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Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Recreation and Sports A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Recreation and Sports
Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) 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 In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Recreation and Sports My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Recreation and Sports
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Recreation and Sports The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Recreation and Sports
