Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Recreation and Sports Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Recreation and Sports
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Recreation and Sports "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Recreation and Sports "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Recreation and Sports
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Recreation and Sports I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Recreation and Sports
Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Recreation and Sports I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Recreation and Sports
What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa 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 Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Recreation and Sports The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. 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 Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Recreation and Sports
Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Recreation and Sports
Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene 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 What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Recreation and Sports We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Recreation and Sports
I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Recreation and Sports "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Recreation and Sports
Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Recreation and Sports Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Recreation and Sports
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Recreation and Sports Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Recreation and Sports
