Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Recreation and Sports
The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Recreation and Sports blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Recreation and Sports
"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Recreation and Sports .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Recreation and Sports
"People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Recreation and Sports The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Recreation and Sports
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Recreation and Sports "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Recreation and Sports
They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Recreation and Sports The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Recreation and Sports
This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Recreation and Sports Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Recreation and Sports
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Recreation and Sports You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Recreation and Sports
"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Recreation and Sports
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Recreation and Sports We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Recreation and Sports
Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Recreation and Sports The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Recreation and Sports
