To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Recreation and Sports Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Recreation and Sports
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig 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 He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Recreation and Sports
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra 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 NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Recreation and Sports We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Recreation and Sports
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Recreation and Sports Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Recreation and Sports
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson 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 "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Recreation and Sports
"I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) 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 Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Recreation and Sports "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) 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 The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Recreation and Sports
"We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) 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 May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Recreation and Sports To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Recreation and Sports
"In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i 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, What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Recreation and Sports Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Recreation and Sports
I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Recreation and Sports Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Recreation and Sports
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Recreation and Sports Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu 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 I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Recreation and Sports
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Recreation and Sports Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports
