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"Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Recreation and Sports "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Recreation and Sports
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reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Recreation and Sports "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Recreation and Sports
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Recreation and Sports Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Recreation and Sports
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Recreation and Sports "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Recreation and Sports
"I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Recreation and Sports Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Recreation and Sports
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Recreation and Sports "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Recreation and Sports
The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Recreation and Sports "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Recreation and Sports
Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller 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 Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Recreation and Sports
blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Recreation and Sports The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Recreation and Sports Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Recreation and Sports
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield 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 Recreation and Sports "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill "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) Recreation and Sports
