A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Recreation and Sports Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Recreation and Sports
"Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Recreation and Sports Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Recreation and Sports
What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Recreation and Sports Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Recreation and Sports
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman 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 Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Recreation and Sports Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Recreation and Sports
A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Recreation and Sports To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Recreation and Sports
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch 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 A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Recreation and Sports Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Recreation and Sports
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Recreation and Sports When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Recreation and Sports
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake 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 You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Recreation and Sports
"As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Recreation and Sports The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Recreation and Sports
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Recreation and Sports "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Recreation and Sports
