A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Recreation and Sports A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Recreation and Sports
"One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor 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 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 In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Recreation and Sports "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Recreation and Sports
Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Recreation and Sports Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Recreation and Sports
"Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Recreation and Sports "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Recreation and Sports
"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" Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Recreation and Sports "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Recreation and Sports When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard 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 "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Recreation and Sports
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Recreation and Sports
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Recreation and Sports This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Recreation and Sports
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Recreation and Sports All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 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" Recreation and Sports
Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Recreation and Sports Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Recreation and Sports
"All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) 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 Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Recreation and Sports
