If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Recreation and Sports Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Recreation and Sports
"... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) 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 It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Recreation and Sports The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Recreation and Sports
"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Recreation and Sports
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Recreation and Sports Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Recreation and Sports
>From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Recreation and Sports Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Recreation and Sports
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Recreation and Sports "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Recreation and Sports
I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous 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. Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Recreation and Sports "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Recreation and Sports
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb 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 Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Recreation and Sports When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Recreation and Sports
"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Recreation and Sports The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Recreation and Sports
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea 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 >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Recreation and Sports Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
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