It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz "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) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Recreation and Sports "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates 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 Recreation and Sports
I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod 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 The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Recreation and Sports Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Recreation and Sports
Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Recreation and Sports
"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Recreation and Sports I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Recreation and Sports
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Recreation and Sports "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Recreation and Sports
Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Recreation and Sports What's new? Most of my wife. Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Recreation and Sports
"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Recreation and Sports All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Recreation and Sports
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Recreation and Sports "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 Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports
The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Recreation and Sports To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Recreation and Sports
"I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Recreation and Sports Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song 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 Recreation and Sports
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Recreation and Sports If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Recreation and Sports
