I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Recreation and Sports
"In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Recreation and Sports
"I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Recreation and Sports There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Recreation and Sports
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Recreation and Sports Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Recreation and Sports Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Recreation and Sports
When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Recreation and Sports
No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Recreation and Sports A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Recreation and Sports
"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Recreation and Sports Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Recreation and Sports
"Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Recreation and Sports If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Recreation and Sports
"As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 Recreation and Sports Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Recreation and Sports
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Recreation and Sports I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Recreation and Sports
