Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Recreation and Sports "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Recreation and Sports
You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Recreation and Sports Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "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) Recreation and Sports
"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Recreation and Sports If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Recreation and Sports
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb "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) Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Recreation and Sports
Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Recreation and Sports It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld 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 "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Recreation and Sports
The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Recreation and Sports My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Recreation and Sports
The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Recreation and Sports 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 Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt 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
"The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) "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 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 I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Recreation and Sports "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de 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 Recreation and Sports
Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Recreation and Sports Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Recreation and Sports
There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Recreation and Sports Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Recreation and Sports
If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Recreation and Sports Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Recreation and Sports
