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The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Recreation and Sports "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Recreation and Sports
In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins 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 Recreation and Sports A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël 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 The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Recreation and Sports "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Recreation and Sports
"The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey 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 "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Recreation and Sports It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Recreation and Sports
I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Recreation and Sports "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Recreation and Sports
I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Recreation and Sports "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Recreation and Sports
"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) "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) "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Recreation and Sports Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Recreation and Sports
I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Recreation and Sports Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous "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) Recreation and Sports
"The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Recreation and Sports The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Recreation and Sports
Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Recreation and Sports There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Recreation and Sports
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 Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Recreation and Sports "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Recreation and Sports
