Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Recreation and Sports "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Recreation and Sports
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 Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Recreation and Sports Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Recreation and Sports
"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Recreation and Sports The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Recreation and Sports
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier 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 Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Recreation and Sports I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Recreation and Sports
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes 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" I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
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-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Recreation and Sports Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
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-- Robert Benchley I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Recreation and Sports
"Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Recreation and Sports "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Recreation and Sports
"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) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Recreation and Sports When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Recreation and Sports
The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Recreation and Sports "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Recreation and Sports
Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Recreation and Sports Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Recreation and Sports
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Recreation and Sports They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi What's new? Most of my wife. If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Recreation and Sports
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 think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
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-- Ben Hecht This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
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