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 Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Recreation and Sports May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
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All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Recreation and Sports "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The 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 Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Recreation and Sports
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Recreation and Sports Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Recreation and Sports
The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Recreation and Sports "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Recreation and Sports
"The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Recreation and Sports He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Recreation and Sports
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Recreation and Sports I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Recreation and Sports "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Recreation and Sports My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Recreation and Sports
For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Recreation and Sports "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Recreation and Sports "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor 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 "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. My other wife is beautiful. Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Recreation and Sports Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Recreation and Sports
