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We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Recreation and Sports "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Recreation and Sports
Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Recreation and Sports Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Recreation and Sports
"How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Recreation and Sports Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Recreation and Sports
I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor 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 Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Recreation and Sports "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Recreation and Sports
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Recreation and Sports It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Recreation and Sports Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Recreation and Sports
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Recreation and Sports Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Recreation and Sports
I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Recreation and Sports Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Recreation and Sports "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) 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 had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports
"Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge 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 Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Recreation and Sports "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Recreation and Sports
