Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Recreation and Sports America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) 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 Recreation and Sports
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein 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 It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom 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 That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Recreation and Sports
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Recreation and Sports You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Recreation and Sports
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Recreation and Sports I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin 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 "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Recreation and Sports
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Recreation and Sports In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Recreation and Sports
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports
"Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Recreation and Sports "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Recreation and Sports
History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Recreation and Sports There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Recreation and Sports
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Recreation and Sports We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Recreation and Sports
"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Recreation and Sports It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) "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
