The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Recreation and Sports Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Recreation and Sports
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Recreation and Sports We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Recreation and Sports
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Recreation and Sports "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Recreation and Sports
If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Recreation and Sports Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Recreation and Sports
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Recreation and Sports The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Recreation and Sports
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Recreation and Sports We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Recreation and Sports
In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Recreation and Sports Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Recreation and Sports
"Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Recreation and Sports Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Recreation and Sports
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. 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 I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Recreation and Sports
Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Recreation and Sports "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
"Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Recreation and Sports "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Recreation and Sports
