Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Recreation and Sports I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Recreation and Sports
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Recreation and Sports "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Recreation and Sports
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas 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 Recreation and Sports Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Recreation and Sports
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Recreation and Sports You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Recreation and Sports
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Recreation and Sports Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Recreation and Sports
"I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Man and wife make one fool. "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Recreation and Sports 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 Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Recreation and Sports
I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Recreation and Sports 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 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 Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Recreation and Sports
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Recreation and Sports "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Recreation and Sports
"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Recreation and Sports The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Recreation and Sports
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Recreation and Sports The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Recreation and Sports
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Recreation and Sports
