Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Recreation and Sports "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Recreation and Sports Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Recreation and Sports
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Recreation and Sports And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Recreation and Sports
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "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, Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song 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 Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Recreation and Sports There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Recreation and Sports
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Recreation and Sports "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Recreation and Sports Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Recreation and Sports
"The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Recreation and Sports Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) "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) Recreation and Sports
A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Spinster: A bachelor's wife. The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Recreation and Sports Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Recreation and Sports
It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton 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) Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Recreation and Sports
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Recreation and Sports History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "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." 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 Recreation and Sports
