ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Recreation and Sports "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Recreation and Sports
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Recreation and Sports Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Recreation and Sports
Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) 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 blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Recreation and Sports One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Recreation and Sports
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Man and wife make one fool. We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Recreation and Sports I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports
Spinster: A bachelor's wife. "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Recreation and Sports I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Recreation and Sports
Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness 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 To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Recreation and Sports If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Recreation and Sports
I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Recreation and Sports "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Recreation and Sports
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Recreation and Sports "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Recreation and Sports
Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Recreation and Sports We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Recreation and Sports
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Recreation and Sports To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Recreation and Sports
The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Recreation and Sports It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Recreation and Sports
