"There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Recreation and Sports "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) 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 Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Recreation and Sports
English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Recreation and Sports "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Recreation and Sports
"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Recreation and Sports Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Recreation and Sports
"Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Recreation and Sports Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Recreation and Sports
"It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Recreation and Sports Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa 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 Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Recreation and Sports "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) 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
Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Recreation and Sports Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Recreation and Sports
We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Recreation and Sports
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Recreation and Sports Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Recreation and Sports
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Recreation and Sports "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Recreation and Sports
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Recreation and Sports
