You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Recreation and Sports English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Recreation and Sports
I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Recreation and Sports 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 "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Recreation and Sports
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Recreation and Sports In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Recreation and Sports
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
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- George Bernard Shaw Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Recreation and Sports Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Recreation and Sports
Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports Man and wife make one fool. I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Recreation and Sports "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Recreation and Sports
blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous 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 If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Recreation and Sports Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
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-- General Omar Bradley Recreation and Sports
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Recreation and Sports To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Recreation and Sports
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, "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Recreation and Sports The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Recreation and Sports
"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) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Recreation and Sports
We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Recreation and Sports He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Recreation and Sports
