Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Recreation and Sports There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life 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 A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Recreation and Sports
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Recreation and Sports Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Recreation and Sports
My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Recreation and Sports I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage is a rest period between romances. Recreation and Sports
>From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein 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 I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Recreation and Sports >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Recreation and Sports
If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from 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 Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Recreation and Sports I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Recreation and Sports There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Recreation and Sports
Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Recreation and Sports "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) "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 Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Recreation and Sports
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Recreation and Sports Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Recreation and Sports
Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Recreation and Sports 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 The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Recreation and Sports
Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Recreation and Sports You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Recreation and Sports
"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Recreation and Sports "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche 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 Recreation and Sports
