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"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) No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Recreation and Sports If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Recreation and Sports
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Recreation and Sports Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports
We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Recreation and Sports In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Recreation and Sports
"The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Recreation and Sports The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Recreation and Sports
"Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe 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 Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Recreation and Sports
I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Recreation and Sports There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Recreation and Sports
"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Recreation and Sports If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Recreation and Sports
"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin 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 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 Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Recreation and Sports If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Recreation and Sports
Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Recreation and Sports The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle 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
When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth "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 To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer "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) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Recreation and Sports
Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Recreation and Sports 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 Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D 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
