"What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Recreation and Sports A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Recreation and Sports Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude 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 A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Recreation and Sports "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 "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Recreation and Sports
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Recreation and Sports Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Recreation and Sports
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Recreation and Sports
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. 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 "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Recreation and Sports He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Recreation and Sports
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov 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 A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Recreation and Sports "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Recreation and Sports
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Recreation and Sports If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Recreation and Sports
He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 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 Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Recreation and Sports
"Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Recreation and Sports Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Recreation and Sports
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Recreation and Sports Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Recreation and Sports
