Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
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-- Susan Ertz "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
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-- Abraham Lincoln Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
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"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
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-- Samuel Johnson Recreation and Sports Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford "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) Recreation and Sports
"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Recreation and Sports There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Recreation and Sports
Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
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-- William Arthur Ward Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Recreation and Sports "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
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-- Russell Baker "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Recreation and Sports No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Recreation and Sports
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
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-- Anonymous One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Recreation and Sports
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling "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) It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Recreation and Sports "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Recreation and Sports
"Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Recreation and Sports "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
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commun Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Recreation and Sports
I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
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-- John Brown - last words 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 "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Recreation and Sports
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Recreation and Sports The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Recreation and Sports
"I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "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) "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Recreation and Sports The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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