Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Recreation and Sports "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Recreation and Sports
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Recreation and Sports Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Recreation and Sports
I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner 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 "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Recreation and Sports "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Recreation and Sports
"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 "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Recreation and Sports I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Recreation and Sports
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Recreation and Sports "... 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) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Recreation and Sports
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Recreation and Sports Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Recreation and Sports
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Recreation and Sports If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Recreation and Sports
True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Recreation and Sports The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Recreation and Sports
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Recreation and Sports When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Recreation and Sports
In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Recreation and Sports
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Recreation and Sports However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Recreation and Sports
