"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Recreation and Sports Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Recreation and Sports Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Recreation and Sports
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Recreation and Sports We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. 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 Recreation and Sports >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Recreation and Sports
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Recreation and Sports "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
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A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Recreation and Sports We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Recreation and Sports
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Recreation and Sports To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Recreation and Sports
Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Recreation and Sports
"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) Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Recreation and Sports Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Recreation and Sports
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) "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, A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Recreation and Sports blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Recreation and Sports
"It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Recreation and Sports The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
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