Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Recreation and Sports I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Recreation and Sports
It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Recreation and Sports The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Recreation and Sports
"Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Recreation and Sports It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Recreation and Sports
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Recreation and Sports You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Recreation and Sports
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Recreation and Sports None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) 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 Recreation and Sports
Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray "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) "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Recreation and Sports "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Recreation and Sports
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Recreation and Sports Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Recreation and Sports
"... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Recreation and Sports Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Recreation and Sports
The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Recreation and Sports Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Recreation and Sports
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Recreation and Sports Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Recreation and Sports
"I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Recreation and Sports The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Recreation and Sports
