I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous 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 Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Recreation and Sports
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker 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 Recreation and Sports Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Recreation and Sports
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Recreation and Sports If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Recreation and Sports
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Recreation and Sports Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Recreation and Sports
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Recreation and Sports "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) The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Recreation and Sports
Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Recreation and Sports
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Recreation and Sports It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Recreation and Sports
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf 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 He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Recreation and Sports It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Recreation and Sports
Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Recreation and Sports Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Recreation and Sports
Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Recreation and Sports
"Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Recreation and Sports Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Recreation and Sports
