"Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Recreation and Sports "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Recreation and Sports
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Recreation and Sports A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Recreation and Sports
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Recreation and Sports The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Recreation and Sports
In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Recreation and Sports When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Recreation and Sports
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Recreation and Sports "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Recreation and Sports
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Recreation and Sports A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Recreation and Sports
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Recreation and Sports And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Recreation and Sports
"Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb 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 then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Recreation and Sports
Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Recreation and Sports Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Recreation and Sports
"I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh 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) If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Recreation and Sports
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante 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 Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Recreation and Sports Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie 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 Recreation and Sports
