"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) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Recreation and Sports An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Recreation and Sports
blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Recreation and Sports "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Recreation and Sports
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 A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Recreation and Sports "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer My other wife is beautiful. Recreation and Sports
Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Recreation and Sports Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Recreation and Sports
You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Recreation and Sports He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Recreation and Sports
A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Recreation and Sports Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Recreation and Sports
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Recreation and Sports Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Recreation and Sports
I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi 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 Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Recreation and Sports "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Recreation and Sports
I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Recreation and Sports Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Recreation and Sports I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Recreation and Sports
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Recreation and Sports I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard 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 The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Recreation and Sports
