"Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Recreation and Sports Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Recreation and Sports
"People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Recreation and Sports Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Recreation and Sports
Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) "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 Recreation and Sports Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Recreation and Sports
I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Recreation and Sports I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) 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
He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Recreation and Sports The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Recreation and Sports
A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Recreation and Sports "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Recreation and Sports
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Recreation and Sports I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Recreation and Sports
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein 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 I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Recreation and Sports "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Recreation and Sports
It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Recreation and Sports It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Recreation and Sports
"In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Recreation and Sports There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Recreation and Sports
Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Recreation and Sports Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Recreation and Sports
