Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Recreation and Sports I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Recreation and Sports
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Recreation and Sports I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Recreation and Sports
He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Recreation and Sports He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Recreation and Sports
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Recreation and Sports Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Recreation and Sports
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Recreation and Sports "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Recreation and Sports
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman 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 When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. 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 "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) "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
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Recreation and Sports Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Recreation and Sports
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Recreation and Sports In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Recreation and Sports
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Recreation and Sports All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Recreation and Sports
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Recreation and Sports Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley 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 The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
