There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Recreation and Sports Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports
"Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Recreation and Sports
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Recreation and Sports By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Recreation and Sports
Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Recreation and Sports A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Recreation and Sports
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Recreation and Sports Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports
I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Recreation and Sports Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words 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, Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Recreation and Sports To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Recreation and Sports
"Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Recreation and Sports
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) 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 Recreation and Sports When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Recreation and Sports
"Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Recreation and Sports Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Recreation and Sports "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) 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
