"One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Recreation and Sports A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Recreation and Sports
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Recreation and Sports True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Recreation and Sports
I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Recreation and Sports
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Recreation and Sports "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Recreation and Sports
I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Recreation and Sports "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Recreation and Sports
Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson 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 Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Recreation and Sports Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Recreation and Sports
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Recreation and Sports It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Recreation and Sports
History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Recreation and Sports When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Recreation and Sports
The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Recreation and Sports Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Recreation and Sports
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Recreation and Sports 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 Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Recreation and Sports
Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Recreation and Sports I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Recreation and Sports
