The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Recreation and Sports I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Recreation and Sports
"Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Recreation and Sports It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Recreation and Sports
"The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) 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 use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Recreation and Sports "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein 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 The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Recreation and Sports A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Recreation and Sports
"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 It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Recreation and Sports Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Recreation and Sports
"Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Recreation and Sports 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 child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Recreation and Sports
It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Recreation and Sports Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Recreation and Sports
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Recreation and Sports "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Recreation and Sports
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "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 "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Recreation and Sports There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Recreation and Sports
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Recreation and Sports Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Recreation and Sports
You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Recreation and Sports When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Recreation and Sports
