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 Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Recreation and Sports Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Recreation and Sports
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers 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 Recreation and Sports "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Recreation and Sports
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black 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 You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Recreation and Sports "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Recreation and Sports
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports 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 Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Recreation and Sports
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Recreation and Sports "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Recreation and Sports
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Recreation and Sports Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Recreation and Sports
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Recreation and Sports "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert 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 Recreation and Sports
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Recreation and Sports
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Recreation and Sports Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Recreation and Sports
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha May you never leave your marriage alive. 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 The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Recreation and Sports
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Recreation and Sports The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Recreation and Sports
