Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Recreation and Sports "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Recreation and Sports
"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Recreation and Sports If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Recreation and Sports
"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) 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 Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Recreation and Sports If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Recreation and Sports
"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Recreation and Sports Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board "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) Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Recreation and Sports "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Recreation and Sports Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Recreation and Sports
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Recreation and Sports "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Recreation and Sports
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Recreation and Sports "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) "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Marriage is a rest period between romances. Recreation and Sports
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Recreation and Sports Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Recreation and Sports
However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Recreation and Sports "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Recreation and Sports
I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty 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 must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Recreation and Sports If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Recreation and Sports
