Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Recreation and Sports A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Recreation and Sports
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Recreation and Sports It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Recreation and Sports
Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Recreation and Sports Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Recreation and Sports
"... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Recreation and Sports Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Recreation and Sports
Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Recreation and Sports "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Recreation and Sports
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Recreation and Sports Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Recreation and Sports
"There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Recreation and Sports "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Recreation and Sports
The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Recreation and Sports "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion 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
"Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Recreation and Sports I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling "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 May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Recreation and Sports
"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) The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Recreation and Sports "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Recreation and Sports
