"All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Recreation and Sports
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Recreation and Sports "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 more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Recreation and Sports
When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch 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 Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Recreation and Sports Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Recreation and Sports
He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Recreation and Sports I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Recreation and Sports
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Recreation and Sports The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Recreation and Sports
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Recreation and Sports It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Recreation and Sports
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) 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 Recreation and Sports "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
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Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 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 "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Recreation and Sports A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Recreation and Sports
blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Recreation and Sports Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. 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 Recreation and Sports
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Recreation and Sports "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Recreation and Sports
