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Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli 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 Recreation and Sports We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Recreation and Sports
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Recreation and Sports I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Recreation and Sports
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm 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 Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Recreation and Sports You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Recreation and Sports
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Recreation and Sports The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Recreation and Sports
"From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Recreation and Sports "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Recreation and Sports A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Recreation and Sports
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Recreation and Sports In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Recreation and Sports
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Recreation and Sports Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Recreation and Sports
I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield "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 There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Recreation and Sports "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Recreation and Sports
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings 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 "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Recreation and Sports The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Recreation and Sports
Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Recreation and Sports If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Recreation and Sports
