"What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Recreation and Sports Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Recreation and Sports If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Recreation and Sports
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Recreation and Sports Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Recreation and Sports
Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Recreation and Sports "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Recreation and Sports
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Recreation and Sports "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Recreation and Sports
"Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Recreation and Sports
"...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Recreation and Sports "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Recreation and Sports If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Recreation and Sports
There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Recreation and Sports Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Recreation and Sports
Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic 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 The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Recreation and Sports Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) 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, Recreation and Sports
"When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Recreation and Sports If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
