Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Spinster: A bachelor's wife. It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Recreation and Sports Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Recreation and Sports
If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Recreation and Sports
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 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 I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Recreation and Sports They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Recreation and Sports
blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Recreation and Sports I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Recreation and Sports
Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Recreation and Sports 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 How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Recreation and Sports
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Recreation and Sports
Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "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 "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Recreation and Sports Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Recreation and Sports
"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Recreation and Sports
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Recreation and Sports "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' There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Recreation and Sports Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Recreation and Sports
The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. 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 If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Recreation and Sports "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Recreation and Sports
