Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous "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." Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Recreation and Sports If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Recreation and Sports
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Recreation and Sports Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde "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) Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Recreation and Sports
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Recreation and Sports Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Recreation and Sports
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Recreation and Sports It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Recreation and Sports
"As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Recreation and Sports If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Recreation and Sports
Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Recreation and Sports Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Recreation and Sports
"Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports
Spinster: A bachelor's wife. He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Recreation and Sports If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous 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
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Recreation and Sports You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) .. 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 Recreation and Sports
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Recreation and Sports Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Recreation and Sports
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY My other wife is beautiful. Recreation and Sports "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Recreation and Sports
