The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Recreation and Sports "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Recreation and Sports
"One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Recreation and Sports "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Recreation and Sports
You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Recreation and Sports
"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) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Recreation and Sports Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Recreation and Sports
"The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Recreation and Sports I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Recreation and Sports
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Recreation and Sports If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Recreation and Sports
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Recreation and Sports What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Recreation and Sports
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor 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 An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Recreation and Sports
Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Recreation and Sports The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Recreation and Sports
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Recreation and Sports "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain 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 Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Recreation and Sports "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
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