I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The 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 Recreation and Sports We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Recreation and Sports
The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Recreation and Sports "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Recreation and Sports
I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Recreation and Sports "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) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Recreation and Sports
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Recreation and Sports "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Recreation and Sports
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Recreation and Sports If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Recreation and Sports
"You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac "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) The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Recreation and Sports A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Recreation and Sports
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken 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. Recreation and Sports Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Recreation and Sports
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 The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Recreation and Sports I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Recreation and Sports
True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Recreation and Sports In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Recreation and Sports
The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Recreation and Sports To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Recreation and Sports
