"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Recreation and Sports They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Recreation and Sports
"A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Recreation and Sports "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Recreation and Sports
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Recreation and Sports Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Recreation and Sports
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Recreation and Sports Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous 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 Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports
"Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Recreation and Sports "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Recreation and Sports
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 "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Recreation and Sports Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Recreation and Sports
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Recreation and Sports "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Recreation and Sports
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 Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Recreation and Sports "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Recreation and Sports
I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "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 concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Recreation and Sports "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Recreation and Sports
To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Recreation and Sports I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Recreation and Sports
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Recreation and Sports Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Recreation and Sports
