Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Recreation and Sports To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Recreation and Sports The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Recreation and Sports
Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Recreation and Sports Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Recreation and Sports
"How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Recreation and Sports "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Recreation and Sports
"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 I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Recreation and Sports "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Recreation and Sports Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Recreation and Sports
I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "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) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Recreation and Sports 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 Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Recreation and Sports
"I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Recreation and Sports When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Recreation and Sports
I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Recreation and Sports
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Recreation and Sports A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Recreation and Sports
