"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Recreation and Sports "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) 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 "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Recreation and Sports
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Recreation and Sports
I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Recreation and Sports Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Recreation and Sports
And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Recreation and Sports Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "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) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Recreation and Sports
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) 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 Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. 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 The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Recreation and Sports Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports
blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain 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 Recreation and Sports I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Recreation and Sports
Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Recreation and Sports The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Recreation and Sports
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Recreation and Sports I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Recreation and Sports
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Recreation and Sports Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Recreation and Sports
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Recreation and Sports "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
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