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 "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Recreation and Sports There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Recreation and Sports
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Recreation and Sports "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec 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 Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Recreation and Sports "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Recreation and Sports
If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Recreation and Sports "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Recreation and Sports
"The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Recreation and Sports They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Recreation and Sports
Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin 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, A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
"How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Recreation and Sports True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Recreation and Sports
This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "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) Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Recreation and Sports "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) 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 "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Recreation and Sports
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Recreation and Sports Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Recreation and Sports
What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) "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) Recreation and Sports "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Recreation and Sports
He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Recreation and Sports I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Recreation and Sports
