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-- Adlai Stevenson "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
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-- Anonymous Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
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-- George Bernard Shaw A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
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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.
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
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-- E. W. Howe Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
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"Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) 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 . . .
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-- Victor Hugo You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
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-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Recreation and Sports Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
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-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Recreation and Sports
Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Recreation and Sports "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Recreation and Sports "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
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Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Recreation and Sports "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) May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Recreation and Sports
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Recreation and Sports Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
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-- Harold Loukes Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Recreation and Sports
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Recreation and Sports "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) 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 Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Recreation and Sports
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Recreation and Sports Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Recreation and Sports
Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. My other wife is beautiful. "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Recreation and Sports "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
