The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost My other wife is beautiful. You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Recreation and Sports My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Recreation and Sports
"If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Recreation and Sports When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Recreation and Sports
"The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Recreation and Sports The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Recreation and Sports
"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) They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Recreation and Sports Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Recreation and Sports
If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Recreation and Sports After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) "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) "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) 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" Recreation and Sports "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Recreation and Sports
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Recreation and Sports
The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Recreation and Sports
I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Recreation and Sports Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Recreation and Sports
"I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Recreation and Sports
I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Recreation and Sports "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
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