Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Recreation and Sports And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Recreation and Sports
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Recreation and Sports It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Recreation and Sports
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Recreation and Sports If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Recreation and Sports
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Recreation and Sports Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Recreation and Sports
Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Recreation and Sports Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Recreation and Sports
Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Recreation and Sports Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Recreation and Sports
Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Recreation and Sports In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
"A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Recreation and Sports Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Recreation and Sports
Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Recreation and Sports The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Recreation and Sports
"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Recreation and Sports I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Recreation and Sports
You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Recreation and Sports The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Recreation and Sports
