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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 Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Recreation and Sports Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Recreation and Sports Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports
Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Recreation and Sports Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Recreation and Sports
"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy 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 Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Recreation and Sports The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Recreation and Sports
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Recreation and Sports "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Recreation and Sports
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Recreation and Sports "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard 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 Recreation and Sports
"No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Recreation and Sports Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Recreation and Sports
Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Recreation and Sports "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Recreation and Sports
The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Recreation and Sports A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Recreation and Sports
Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Recreation and Sports Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Recreation and Sports
You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Recreation and Sports "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
