Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Recreation and Sports First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Recreation and Sports
His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban 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 "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius 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 Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Recreation and Sports
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Recreation and Sports All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Recreation and Sports
"I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Recreation and Sports "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Recreation and Sports More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Recreation and Sports
Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Recreation and Sports Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Recreation and Sports
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Recreation and Sports "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Recreation and Sports
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Recreation and Sports A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Recreation and Sports
Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Recreation and Sports Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Recreation and Sports
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Recreation and Sports Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Recreation and Sports
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley "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) Recreation and Sports The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Recreation and Sports
