"If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
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-- Anonymous "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Recreation and Sports I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Recreation and Sports
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright 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 Recreation and Sports "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Recreation and Sports A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Recreation and Sports
Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 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 Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Recreation and Sports
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Recreation and Sports After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Recreation and Sports
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "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) 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 Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Recreation and Sports When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Recreation and Sports
Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Recreation and Sports A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. 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 "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Recreation and Sports "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Recreation and Sports
"Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Recreation and Sports There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Recreation and Sports
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Recreation and Sports The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
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