The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Recreation and Sports 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 My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Recreation and Sports
I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel "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 "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Recreation and Sports
"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Recreation and Sports
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Recreation and Sports I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Recreation and Sports
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Recreation and Sports When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Recreation and Sports
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Recreation and Sports .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Recreation and Sports
The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Recreation and Sports There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
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There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Recreation and Sports "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Recreation and Sports
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Recreation and Sports Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Recreation and Sports
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Recreation and Sports "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Recreation and Sports
Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Recreation and Sports Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports
