"Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Recreation and Sports This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Recreation and Sports
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Recreation and Sports I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Recreation and Sports
The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Recreation and Sports blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Recreation and Sports
They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Recreation and Sports There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Recreation and Sports
"The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Recreation and Sports "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Recreation and Sports
See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Recreation and Sports Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Recreation and Sports
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Recreation and Sports If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Recreation and Sports
This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Recreation and Sports Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous 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,
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Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Recreation and Sports "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover 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 "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Recreation and Sports
When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart 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 A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Recreation and Sports The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
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