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Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Recreation and Sports "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Recreation and Sports
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Recreation and Sports Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Recreation and Sports
The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Recreation and Sports It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Recreation and Sports
"These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) 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 You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Recreation and Sports A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Recreation and Sports
Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Recreation and Sports Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Recreation and Sports
Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Recreation and Sports "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Recreation and Sports
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Recreation and Sports 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 "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) Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Recreation and Sports
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Recreation and Sports If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Recreation and Sports
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and 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 I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Recreation and Sports Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Recreation and Sports
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Recreation and Sports "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Recreation and Sports
"One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Recreation and Sports You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Recreation and Sports
