It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all "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 I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Recreation and Sports
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Recreation and Sports If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Recreation and Sports
Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Recreation and Sports But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Recreation and Sports
Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Recreation and Sports The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Recreation and Sports
"I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Recreation and Sports "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen 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,
"... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaďs Nin Recreation and Sports We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Recreation and Sports
'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings 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 They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Recreation and Sports "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Recreation and Sports
A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Recreation and Sports Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Recreation and Sports
At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Recreation and Sports The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Recreation and Sports
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Recreation and Sports
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cćsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Recreation and Sports No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Recreation and Sports
