I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Recreation and Sports The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Recreation and Sports
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Recreation and Sports Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Recreation and Sports
Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Marriage is a rest period between romances. Recreation and Sports I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Recreation and Sports
Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Recreation and Sports
"The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." 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 "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Recreation and Sports All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Recreation and Sports
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming 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 Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Recreation and Sports The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Recreation and Sports
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec 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 What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Recreation and Sports There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Recreation and Sports
Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe "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 Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Recreation and Sports
"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Recreation and Sports English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) 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
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Recreation and Sports If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Recreation and Sports
