Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Recreation and Sports
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Recreation and Sports You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Recreation and Sports
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Recreation and Sports The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Recreation and Sports The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Recreation and Sports
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Recreation and Sports When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Recreation and Sports
Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Recreation and Sports Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Recreation and Sports
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Recreation and Sports "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Recreation and Sports
It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) 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 Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Recreation and Sports Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Recreation and Sports
There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Recreation and Sports "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Recreation and Sports
Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Recreation and Sports 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 There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports
Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley "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) Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Recreation and Sports blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Recreation and Sports
