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Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides "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) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Recreation and Sports "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Recreation and Sports
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Recreation and Sports The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Recreation and Sports
The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Recreation and Sports What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Recreation and Sports
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "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 If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Recreation and Sports I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Recreation and Sports
If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Recreation and Sports The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Recreation and Sports
"The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Recreation and Sports "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Recreation and Sports
I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Recreation and Sports "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Recreation and Sports
"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports 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 It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Recreation and Sports
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) 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 All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Recreation and Sports It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "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
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) 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 Recreation and Sports To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Recreation and Sports
Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what "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) If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Recreation and Sports Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports
