"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Recreation and Sports That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Recreation and Sports
Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen "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') "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Recreation and Sports If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Recreation and Sports
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Recreation and Sports
"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Recreation and Sports
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Recreation and Sports
"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 Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) "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) Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson 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 "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Recreation and Sports
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Recreation and Sports "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Recreation and Sports
"Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Recreation and Sports For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Recreation and Sports
Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Recreation and Sports It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Recreation and Sports Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Recreation and Sports
The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Recreation and Sports
