The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Recreation and Sports "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Recreation and Sports
"Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Recreation and Sports There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Recreation and Sports
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Recreation and Sports
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Recreation and Sports Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Recreation and Sports
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Recreation and Sports The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Recreation and Sports
The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Recreation and Sports Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Recreation and Sports
If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson 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 Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Marriage is a rest period between romances. Recreation and Sports "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Recreation and Sports
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Recreation and Sports Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Recreation and Sports "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous "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 Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Recreation and Sports
Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Recreation and Sports Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Recreation and Sports
