"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Recreation and Sports There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Recreation and Sports
Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Recreation and Sports I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Recreation and Sports
"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Recreation and Sports Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Recreation and Sports
We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Recreation and Sports Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
"I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Recreation and Sports
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Recreation and Sports Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Recreation and Sports
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 There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Recreation and Sports Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) 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
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Recreation and Sports I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Recreation and Sports
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Recreation and Sports What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Recreation and Sports
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Recreation and Sports Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Recreation and Sports
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Recreation and Sports blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Recreation and Sports
