"One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Recreation and Sports "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Recreation and Sports
Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Recreation and Sports A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Recreation and Sports
There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Recreation and Sports "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Recreation and Sports
Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein 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 I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Recreation and Sports
"College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Recreation and Sports Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Recreation and Sports
"I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Recreation and Sports He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Recreation and Sports
This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Recreation and Sports "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Recreation and Sports
"College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Recreation and Sports "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Recreation and Sports
Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Recreation and Sports Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Recreation and Sports
They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Recreation and Sports Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Recreation and Sports
In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Recreation and Sports blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Recreation and Sports
