If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Recreation and Sports Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet "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 Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Recreation and Sports
What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Recreation and Sports The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Recreation and Sports
I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Recreation and Sports Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Recreation and Sports
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Recreation and Sports I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Recreation and Sports
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Recreation and Sports "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Recreation and Sports
If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Recreation and Sports Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Recreation and Sports
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Recreation and Sports In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
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It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Recreation and Sports Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Recreation and Sports
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Recreation and Sports If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Recreation and Sports
"The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Recreation and Sports "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Recreation and Sports
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Recreation and Sports "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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