When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Recreation and Sports The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Recreation and Sports
I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Recreation and Sports In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports
He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) 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 Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Recreation and Sports "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Recreation and Sports
Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Recreation and Sports He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Recreation and Sports
To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Recreation and Sports "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy 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 Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Recreation and Sports If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Recreation and Sports "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Recreation and Sports
Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Recreation and Sports Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Recreation and Sports
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Recreation and Sports
blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Recreation and Sports The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Recreation and Sports
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Recreation and Sports "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley "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) Recreation and Sports
