"The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Recreation and Sports Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Recreation and Sports
A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. 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 Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Recreation and Sports
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward "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 Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Recreation and Sports He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Recreation and Sports
Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Recreation and Sports The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Recreation and Sports
The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Recreation and Sports There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray "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
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Recreation and Sports My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Recreation and Sports
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Recreation and Sports
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Recreation and Sports Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic 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 "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan 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 I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Recreation and Sports
The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Recreation and Sports The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Recreation and Sports
Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Recreation and Sports Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Recreation and Sports
