"Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Recreation and Sports "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Recreation and Sports
Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Recreation and Sports
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Recreation and Sports "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Recreation and Sports Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Recreation and Sports
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Recreation and Sports I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Recreation and Sports
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Recreation and Sports For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) 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 "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Recreation and Sports The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Recreation and Sports
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 I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Recreation and Sports 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 Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Recreation and Sports
blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Recreation and Sports I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero "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) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Recreation and Sports You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous "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
Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Recreation and Sports I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Recreation and Sports
