Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words 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 I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Recreation and Sports
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Recreation and Sports Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Recreation and Sports
"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Recreation and Sports We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports
We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Recreation and Sports The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Recreation and Sports
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really "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) Recreation and Sports Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Recreation and Sports
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Recreation and Sports Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Recreation and Sports
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Recreation and Sports "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Recreation and Sports
Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Recreation and Sports
A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle "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) Recreation and Sports "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Recreation and Sports
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Recreation and Sports "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) A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Recreation and Sports
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Recreation and Sports By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Recreation and Sports
