"No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Recreation and Sports Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. "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) "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Recreation and Sports
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein 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 "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Recreation and Sports
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Recreation and Sports If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Recreation and Sports
If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Recreation and Sports You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Recreation and Sports
What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Recreation and Sports 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 "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Recreation and Sports
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Recreation and Sports I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Recreation and Sports
Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Recreation and Sports I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Recreation and Sports
"I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Recreation and Sports Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Recreation and Sports
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Recreation and Sports The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Recreation and Sports
"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Recreation and Sports May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports
