One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Recreation and Sports Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
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Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Recreation and Sports The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Recreation and Sports
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Recreation and Sports The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Recreation and Sports
All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Recreation and Sports The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Recreation and Sports
"I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer 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 your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Recreation and Sports Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Recreation and Sports
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Recreation and Sports Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Recreation and Sports
Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Recreation and Sports Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Recreation and Sports
"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) I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Recreation and Sports It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Recreation and Sports
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Recreation and Sports "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Recreation and Sports
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Man and wife make one fool. In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Recreation and Sports "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Recreation and Sports
"What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Recreation and Sports
