The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Recreation and Sports Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) 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 Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Recreation and Sports "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Recreation and Sports
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Recreation and Sports "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Recreation and Sports
"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) For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Recreation and Sports Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Recreation and Sports
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Recreation and Sports
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Recreation and Sports Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Recreation and Sports
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold "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) There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Recreation and Sports We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous 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 Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Recreation and Sports
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Recreation and Sports Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Recreation and Sports
And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Recreation and Sports We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Recreation and Sports "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) "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Recreation and Sports
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Recreation and Sports What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Recreation and Sports
