Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Recreation and Sports Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Recreation and Sports
"I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Recreation and Sports Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens 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." ( Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Recreation and Sports I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Recreation and Sports
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Recreation and Sports I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Recreation and Sports
My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Recreation and Sports LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Recreation and Sports
The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Recreation and Sports 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Recreation and Sports Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Recreation and Sports "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Recreation and Sports
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Recreation and Sports When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Recreation and Sports
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Recreation and Sports What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Recreation and Sports
Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Recreation and Sports "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Recreation and Sports
