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 "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Recreation and Sports
The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Recreation and Sports I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Recreation and Sports
"Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Recreation and Sports When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Recreation and Sports
"Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Recreation and Sports One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Recreation and Sports
"We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Recreation and Sports Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Recreation and Sports
May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous "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) "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 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 "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) 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 Recreation and Sports
Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Recreation and Sports If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Recreation and Sports
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg 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 The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Recreation and Sports This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Recreation and Sports
"Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Recreation and Sports Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Recreation and Sports
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) 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 Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Recreation and Sports
...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Recreation and Sports The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Recreation and Sports
