"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Recreation and Sports
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Recreation and Sports In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Recreation and Sports For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Recreation and Sports
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Recreation and Sports Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Recreation and Sports
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Recreation and Sports "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) 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 He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Recreation and Sports
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Recreation and Sports The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "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) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Recreation and Sports
If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud "Think off-center." (George Carlin) In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Recreation and Sports Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Recreation and Sports
Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Recreation and Sports blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Recreation and Sports
Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Recreation and Sports
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Recreation and Sports You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Recreation and Sports
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Recreation and Sports "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
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