Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Recreation and Sports We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Recreation and Sports
"Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Recreation and Sports
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal 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 Recreation and Sports It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West 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 A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Recreation and Sports
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Recreation and Sports "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Recreation and Sports
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Recreation and Sports "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Recreation and Sports
"A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Recreation and Sports Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Recreation and Sports
"Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) 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 "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) 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" "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Recreation and Sports "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Recreation and Sports
Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Recreation and Sports Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde May you never leave your marriage alive. Recreation and Sports
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Recreation and Sports I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Recreation and Sports
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed "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) It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Recreation and Sports Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams 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 There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Recreation and Sports How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Recreation and Sports
