When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Recreation and Sports You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Recreation and Sports
.. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Recreation and Sports
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Recreation and Sports In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Recreation and Sports
For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Recreation and Sports "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
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It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Recreation and Sports "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
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We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Recreation and Sports It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Recreation and Sports
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) 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 Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Recreation and Sports A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Recreation and Sports
"Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Recreation and Sports "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Recreation and Sports
When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Recreation and Sports "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Recreation and Sports
It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Recreation and Sports If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports
"The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) 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 Recreation and Sports "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
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