The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Recreation and Sports Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Recreation and Sports
What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "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 Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Recreation and Sports
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Recreation and Sports "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Recreation and Sports
Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Recreation and Sports "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) 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 "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Recreation and Sports
What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Recreation and Sports Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Recreation and Sports
"True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf 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 Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Recreation and Sports 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 There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Recreation and Sports
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Recreation and Sports Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Recreation and Sports
Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Recreation and Sports The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Recreation and Sports
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) My other wife is beautiful. "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Recreation and Sports You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Recreation and Sports
I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Recreation and Sports Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Recreation and Sports
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne "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 Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Recreation and Sports The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Recreation and Sports
