The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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) You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Recreation and Sports
"If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Recreation and Sports
The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) "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." "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Recreation and Sports "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 I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Recreation and Sports
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Recreation and Sports It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Recreation and Sports
I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Recreation and Sports Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Recreation and Sports
"To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Recreation and Sports I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Recreation and Sports
It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Recreation and Sports One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Recreation and Sports
Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Recreation and Sports "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Recreation and Sports
If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Recreation and Sports I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Recreation and Sports
I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat 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 The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Recreation and Sports Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Recreation and Sports
