"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Recreation and Sports "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Recreation and Sports
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Recreation and Sports I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Recreation and Sports
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst "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) Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Recreation and Sports Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Recreation and Sports
Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Recreation and Sports "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Recreation and Sports
Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Recreation and Sports A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Recreation and Sports
"In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Recreation and Sports "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Recreation and Sports
"Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Recreation and Sports I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Recreation and Sports
blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Recreation and Sports It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Recreation and Sports
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Recreation and Sports Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Recreation and Sports
Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt 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 "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Recreation and Sports
"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Recreation and Sports If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Recreation and Sports
