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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Recreation and Sports "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Recreation and Sports
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare 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, If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Recreation and Sports
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Recreation and Sports "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Recreation and Sports
"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "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) Recreation and Sports He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Recreation and Sports
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Recreation and Sports Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Recreation and Sports
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Recreation and Sports "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Recreation and Sports
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 "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? 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 Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Recreation and Sports Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Recreation and Sports
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley 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 I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Recreation and Sports
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Recreation and Sports Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
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It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Recreation and Sports "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "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) Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber 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) Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Recreation and Sports Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
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