Chuan Fa Club - Contains articles about Chinese martial arts and activities of the club.
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Recreation and Sports The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Recreation and Sports "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Recreation and Sports
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Recreation and Sports "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Recreation and Sports
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Recreation and Sports "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports
"Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Recreation and Sports The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Recreation and Sports
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Recreation and Sports There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Recreation and Sports "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Recreation and Sports
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Recreation and Sports To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Recreation and Sports
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Recreation and Sports Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Recreation and Sports
"How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Recreation and Sports If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Recreation and Sports
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Recreation and Sports A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Recreation and Sports
