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It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Recreation and Sports "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Recreation and Sports
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) "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) What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Recreation and Sports
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-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi "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) Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Recreation and Sports "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Recreation and Sports
There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Recreation and Sports
There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Recreation and Sports ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Recreation and Sports
It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Recreation and Sports There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Recreation and Sports
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Recreation and Sports Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Recreation and Sports
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Recreation and Sports If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) "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 Recreation and Sports
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Recreation and Sports All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Recreation and Sports
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Recreation and Sports The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Recreation and Sports
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Recreation and Sports Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Recreation and Sports
