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"...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Recreation and Sports Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Recreation and Sports For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Recreation and Sports
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford 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 Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Recreation and Sports There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Recreation and Sports
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Recreation and Sports Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Recreation and Sports
"When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Recreation and Sports Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) "'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, Through the Looking Glass) Recreation and Sports Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Recreation and Sports "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Recreation and Sports
"A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Recreation and Sports "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Recreation and Sports
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Recreation and Sports The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Recreation and Sports
The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Recreation and Sports There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Recreation and Sports
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Recreation and Sports Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Recreation and Sports
