Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle 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 Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Recreation and Sports It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Recreation and Sports
When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Recreation and Sports
The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Recreation and Sports "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Recreation and Sports
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Recreation and Sports Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Recreation and Sports
We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley 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, Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci 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 Recreation and Sports
"To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Recreation and Sports I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land 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 Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Recreation and Sports Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Recreation and Sports This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Recreation and Sports
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Recreation and Sports Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Recreation and Sports
NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Recreation and Sports "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Recreation and Sports
It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Recreation and Sports Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Recreation and Sports
