"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Recreation and Sports Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Recreation and Sports
"I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Recreation and Sports Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" 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 If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Recreation and Sports
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "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 "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Recreation and Sports Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Recreation and Sports
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Recreation and Sports Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin "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) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Recreation and Sports
There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Recreation and Sports "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) Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Recreation and Sports
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married 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 If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Recreation and Sports
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Recreation and Sports I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. 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, If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Recreation and Sports
I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington 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 Recreation and Sports The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Recreation and Sports
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Recreation and Sports Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Recreation and Sports
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Recreation and Sports Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara 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 Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Recreation and Sports
A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Recreation and Sports The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Recreation and Sports
