There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Recreation and Sports Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Recreation and Sports
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Recreation and Sports Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Recreation and Sports Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Recreation and Sports
Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx "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) Recreation and Sports "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Recreation and Sports
"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Recreation and Sports I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Recreation and Sports
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Recreation and Sports Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "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 Recreation and Sports
"Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Recreation and Sports "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Recreation and Sports
Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Recreation and Sports Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Recreation and Sports
"Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Recreation and Sports My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Recreation and Sports
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Recreation and Sports "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Recreation and Sports
I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Recreation and Sports "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Recreation and Sports
