"Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Recreation and Sports "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Recreation and Sports
Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Recreation and Sports "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Recreation and Sports
Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Recreation and Sports Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Recreation and Sports
Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Recreation and Sports 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 More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Recreation and Sports
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Recreation and Sports We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Recreation and Sports
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Recreation and Sports A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Recreation and Sports
If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Recreation and Sports Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Recreation and Sports
"If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce 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 Recreation and Sports Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Recreation and Sports
I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Recreation and Sports "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Recreation and Sports
Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Recreation and Sports Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald 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 thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Recreation and Sports
"To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Recreation and Sports Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Recreation and Sports
