It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright 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 "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 I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Recreation and Sports Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach 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 The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Recreation and Sports
My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce "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 Recreation and Sports Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Recreation and Sports
Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
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The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Recreation and Sports "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr 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
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The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Recreation and Sports There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Recreation and Sports
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Recreation and Sports He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Recreation and Sports
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Recreation and Sports A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee "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) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Recreation and Sports If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
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Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Recreation and Sports "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Recreation and Sports
"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i What's new? Most of my wife. It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Recreation and Sports
Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Recreation and Sports
