We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Recreation and Sports You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Recreation and Sports
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Recreation and Sports
Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 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, We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic 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 Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Recreation and Sports Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Recreation and Sports
Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Recreation and Sports Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Recreation and Sports People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Recreation and Sports
There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Recreation and Sports 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 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 Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Recreation and Sports
"It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) 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) What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Recreation and Sports
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Recreation and Sports
When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Recreation and Sports "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Recreation and Sports
>From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Recreation and Sports Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Recreation and Sports
