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"God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Recreation and Sports A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Recreation and Sports
"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Recreation and Sports
The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Recreation and Sports
blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Recreation and Sports I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Recreation and Sports
I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do 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 Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Recreation and Sports Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Recreation and Sports
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Recreation and Sports Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Recreation and Sports
I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Recreation and Sports "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Recreation and Sports
"Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) 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 "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Recreation and Sports A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Recreation and Sports
When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) "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) A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Recreation and Sports Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Recreation and Sports
He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Recreation and Sports All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Recreation and Sports
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) "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) Recreation and Sports Man and wife make one fool. To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Recreation and Sports
