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He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder 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 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 Recreation and Sports 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 Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Recreation and Sports After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Recreation and Sports
"It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Recreation and Sports Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Recreation and Sports
Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Recreation and Sports "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Recreation and Sports
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
Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Recreation and Sports
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Recreation and Sports If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Recreation and Sports
I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Recreation and Sports Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Recreation and Sports
Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Man and wife make one fool. Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Recreation and Sports The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Recreation and Sports
I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton 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 "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Recreation and Sports "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Recreation and Sports
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song 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) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Recreation and Sports 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 You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin "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 Recreation and Sports "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Recreation and Sports
