An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Recreation and Sports Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Recreation and Sports
I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Recreation and Sports Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Recreation and Sports
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov 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) Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Recreation and Sports
I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Recreation and Sports The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Recreation and Sports
I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden "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 Recreation and Sports
Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Recreation and Sports "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Recreation and Sports "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Recreation and Sports
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Recreation and Sports Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Recreation and Sports
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Recreation and Sports Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
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blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Recreation and Sports Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Recreation and Sports Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Recreation and Sports
