Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Recreation and Sports "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Recreation and Sports
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) 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 >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Recreation and Sports Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Recreation and Sports
Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Recreation and Sports Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Recreation and Sports
"I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Recreation and Sports Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Recreation and Sports
The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey "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 Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Recreation and Sports Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Recreation and Sports
"We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Recreation and Sports "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Recreation and Sports
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Recreation and Sports When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Recreation and Sports
The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell "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 "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Recreation and Sports Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Recreation and Sports
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Recreation and Sports Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Recreation and Sports
In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, "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) 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 The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Recreation and Sports "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Recreation and Sports
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor "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) "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Recreation and Sports A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
