"Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Recreation and Sports Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Recreation and Sports
My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Recreation and Sports MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Recreation and Sports
"God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Recreation and Sports Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Recreation and Sports
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Recreation and Sports
Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Recreation and Sports "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Recreation and Sports
The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Recreation and Sports Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Recreation and Sports
"In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle 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 Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Recreation and Sports
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Recreation and Sports A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Recreation and Sports
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Recreation and Sports Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Recreation and Sports
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Recreation and Sports A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "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) Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Recreation and Sports
"Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Recreation and Sports Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Recreation and Sports
