The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Recreation and Sports We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Recreation and Sports
"The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Recreation and Sports These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Recreation and Sports
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Recreation and Sports
Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Recreation and Sports And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Recreation and Sports
"I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "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 If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West 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
Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Recreation and Sports
"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Recreation and Sports
The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown "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) Recreation and Sports However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Marriage is a rest period between romances. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports
He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Recreation and Sports What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Recreation and Sports
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Recreation and Sports During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Recreation and Sports
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Recreation and Sports Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Recreation and Sports
