Capoeiraskolen Senzala - Capoeira is a martial art, originated in the oppression of the slaves in the colonial days of Brazil.
"...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Recreation and Sports Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Recreation and Sports
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
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-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Recreation and Sports Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Recreation and Sports
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Recreation and Sports Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Recreation and Sports
When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Recreation and Sports If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Recreation and Sports
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry 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 The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Recreation and Sports "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Recreation and Sports
A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Recreation and Sports I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
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-- Hen A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Recreation and Sports
"To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Recreation and Sports He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Recreation and Sports
"The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Recreation and Sports My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Recreation and Sports
When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Recreation and Sports Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Recreation and Sports
Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Recreation and Sports If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Recreation and Sports
"A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) 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 There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Recreation and Sports I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Recreation and Sports
