blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "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) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Recreation and Sports When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Recreation and Sports
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Recreation and Sports "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) Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Recreation and Sports
"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Recreation and Sports Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Recreation and Sports
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "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 "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Recreation and Sports
The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Recreation and Sports A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde 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 statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Recreation and Sports
Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Recreation and Sports The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Recreation and Sports
Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Recreation and Sports The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Recreation and Sports
This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "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 "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Recreation and Sports The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Recreation and Sports If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Recreation and Sports
A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 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 He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Recreation and Sports "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Recreation and Sports
To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Recreation and Sports This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Recreation and Sports
