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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 Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Recreation and Sports If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Recreation and Sports
"Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) 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 When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland May you never leave your marriage alive. blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Recreation and Sports The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Recreation and Sports
Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides 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 Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Recreation and Sports The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Recreation and Sports
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "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) Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Recreation and Sports Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Recreation and Sports
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Recreation and Sports "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Recreation and Sports
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Recreation and Sports Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Recreation and Sports
If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Recreation and Sports "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Recreation and Sports
Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Recreation and Sports
Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Recreation and Sports "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Recreation and Sports
blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Recreation and Sports I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) 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
Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Recreation and Sports Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Recreation and Sports
