Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Recreation and Sports Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Recreation and Sports
"Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Recreation and Sports Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin "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
"Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Recreation and Sports Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Recreation and Sports
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Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
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Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho 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 The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Recreation and Sports The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Recreation and Sports
Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. 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 We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Recreation and Sports Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Recreation and Sports
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Recreation and Sports It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Recreation and Sports
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Recreation and Sports If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Recreation and Sports
I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Recreation and Sports Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Recreation and Sports
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports 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 "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Recreation and Sports
Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Recreation and Sports Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Recreation and Sports
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Recreation and Sports Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Recreation and Sports
