The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Recreation and Sports
"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Recreation and Sports Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Recreation and Sports
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Recreation and Sports Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Recreation and Sports
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings 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" "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Recreation and Sports
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart 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 "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports
"We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Recreation and Sports I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Recreation and Sports
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Recreation and Sports "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Recreation and Sports
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Recreation and Sports Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Recreation and Sports The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Recreation and Sports
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 "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 Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Recreation and Sports
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Recreation and Sports I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Recreation and Sports
