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"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Recreation and Sports I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Recreation and Sports
"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Recreation and Sports Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Recreation and Sports
In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Recreation and Sports The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Recreation and Sports
I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Recreation and Sports
A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple 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 No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Recreation and Sports I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Recreation and Sports
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Recreation and Sports Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "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 I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Recreation and Sports
Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Recreation and Sports Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Recreation and Sports
blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Recreation and Sports If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Recreation and Sports
Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Recreation and Sports "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Recreation and Sports
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Recreation and Sports Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Recreation and Sports
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Recreation and Sports May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Recreation and Sports
