It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "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) If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Recreation and Sports For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault 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 I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Recreation and Sports
He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Recreation and Sports Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Recreation and Sports
"To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White 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 Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Recreation and Sports I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Recreation and Sports
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Recreation and Sports In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb 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 You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Recreation and Sports
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Recreation and Sports The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Recreation and Sports
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun 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 Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Recreation and Sports Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Recreation and Sports
Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Recreation and Sports A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Recreation and Sports
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Recreation and Sports If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Recreation and Sports
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Recreation and Sports He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Recreation and Sports
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Recreation and Sports A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Recreation and Sports Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Recreation and Sports
