And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Recreation and Sports People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba 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 We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Recreation and Sports
"How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings 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 Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Recreation and Sports Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Recreation and Sports
"For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Recreation and Sports The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) 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
There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Recreation and Sports Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Recreation and Sports
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Recreation and Sports Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Recreation and Sports
"Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) 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 Recreation and Sports Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Recreation and Sports
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Recreation and Sports Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Recreation and Sports
2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Recreation and Sports
"The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Recreation and Sports Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Recreation and Sports
"Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Recreation and Sports Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley 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.
-- Crowf "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Recreation and Sports
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Recreation and Sports Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Recreation and Sports
