Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Recreation and Sports "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Recreation and Sports
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley .. 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 Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Recreation and Sports My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Recreation and Sports
I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren 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 Recreation and Sports The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Recreation and Sports
"Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Recreation and Sports "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Recreation and Sports
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Recreation and Sports "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
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In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Recreation and Sports When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Recreation and Sports
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Recreation and Sports Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Recreation and Sports
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Recreation and Sports Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "... 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) Recreation and Sports
You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Recreation and Sports Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
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Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Recreation and Sports "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Recreation and Sports
"I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Recreation and Sports
