Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Recreation and Sports In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull "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) Recreation and Sports
A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Recreation and Sports "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Recreation and Sports
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Recreation and Sports "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Recreation and Sports
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song 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 Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Recreation and Sports The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Recreation and Sports
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Recreation and Sports When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Recreation and Sports
I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Recreation and Sports God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Recreation and Sports Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Recreation and Sports
I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Recreation and Sports "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Recreation and Sports
"Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Recreation and Sports Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Recreation and Sports
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Recreation and Sports I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Recreation and Sports
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Recreation and Sports All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Recreation and Sports
