Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Recreation and Sports We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Recreation and Sports We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Recreation and Sports
I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Recreation and Sports "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields 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
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Recreation and Sports Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Recreation and Sports
A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Recreation and Sports Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Recreation and Sports
Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Recreation and Sports Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Recreation and Sports
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Recreation and Sports I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Recreation and Sports
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Recreation and Sports Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Recreation and Sports
He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Recreation and Sports Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports
Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. 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 Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford 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 Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Recreation and Sports
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 We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) 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 "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Recreation and Sports Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Recreation and Sports
