... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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 "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Recreation and Sports "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Recreation and Sports
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Recreation and Sports
You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Recreation and Sports "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Recreation and Sports
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Recreation and Sports Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Recreation and Sports "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Recreation and Sports
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Recreation and Sports 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 "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Recreation and Sports
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud 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' "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Recreation and Sports 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 "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Recreation and Sports
My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Recreation and Sports By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Recreation and Sports
"I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Recreation and Sports People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Recreation and Sports
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Recreation and Sports It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Marriage is a rest period between romances. Recreation and Sports
Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Recreation and Sports Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Recreation and Sports
