You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Recreation and Sports 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 Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Recreation and Sports
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Recreation and Sports "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Recreation and Sports
"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 would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens 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 "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Recreation and Sports Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Recreation and Sports Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Recreation and Sports
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Recreation and Sports We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Recreation and Sports
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Recreation and Sports "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Recreation and Sports
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Recreation and Sports Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Recreation and Sports
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "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) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Recreation and Sports He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Recreation and Sports
People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Recreation and Sports Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Recreation and Sports
"If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words 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 "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Recreation and Sports
