Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Recreation and Sports The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Recreation and Sports
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Recreation and Sports When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Recreation and Sports
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Recreation and Sports Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Recreation and Sports
"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein "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 The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle 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 Recreation and Sports Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Recreation and Sports
"If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Recreation and Sports I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Recreation and Sports
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Recreation and Sports Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Recreation and Sports
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Recreation and Sports "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Recreation and Sports
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos "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 Recreation and Sports "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Recreation and Sports
"Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Recreation and Sports The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Recreation and Sports
"He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson 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 Recreation and Sports "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) As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 Recreation and Sports
"Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Recreation and Sports "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Recreation and Sports
