"We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Recreation and Sports The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Recreation and Sports
People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Recreation and Sports "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Recreation and Sports
"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) "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Recreation and Sports "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Recreation and Sports
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Recreation and Sports Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports
It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Recreation and Sports "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Recreation and Sports
"This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Recreation and Sports I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Recreation and Sports
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along "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) Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Recreation and Sports Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Recreation and Sports
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) "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) In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Recreation and Sports The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
[You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Recreation and Sports "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Recreation and Sports
Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Recreation and Sports Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Recreation and Sports
Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Recreation and Sports A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Recreation and Sports
