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Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Recreation and Sports In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Recreation and Sports
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Recreation and Sports I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Recreation and Sports "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) I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Recreation and Sports
Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Recreation and Sports Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Recreation and Sports
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Recreation and Sports Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports
The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) "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 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) "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
"Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Recreation and Sports He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Recreation and Sports
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "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" 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 A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Recreation and Sports There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Recreation and Sports
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger "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) Recreation and Sports Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Recreation and Sports
We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Recreation and Sports A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Recreation and Sports
The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor "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) The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Recreation and Sports "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Recreation and Sports
