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You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Recreation and Sports Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Recreation and Sports
"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Recreation and Sports "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid "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) Recreation and Sports
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Recreation and Sports Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Recreation and Sports "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Recreation and Sports
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Recreation and Sports History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Recreation and Sports
He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Recreation and Sports "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Recreation and Sports
"Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Recreation and Sports Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Recreation and Sports
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Recreation and Sports Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless 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 The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Recreation and Sports
"Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Recreation and Sports I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Recreation and Sports
Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Recreation and Sports "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Recreation and Sports
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Recreation and Sports Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Recreation and Sports
