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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
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-- Abraham Lincoln Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Sports Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
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-- Claudette Colbert Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Sports
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller 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 I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Sports "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk 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 The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Sports
Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Sports Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Sports
Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Sports The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Sports
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Sports Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Sports
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Sports "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
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A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Sports Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Sports
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Sports "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Sports
Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Sports If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Sports
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Sports The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Sports
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Sports Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Sports
