Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Recreation and Sports "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Recreation and Sports
"Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Recreation and Sports "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Recreation and Sports
blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Recreation and Sports "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Recreation and Sports Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. 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
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The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Recreation and Sports Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Recreation and Sports
"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Recreation and Sports "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Recreation and Sports
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous 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 I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Recreation and Sports
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Recreation and Sports "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Recreation and Sports
You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Recreation and Sports It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Recreation and Sports
When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Recreation and Sports
To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Recreation and Sports If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Recreation and Sports
