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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) 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 Recreation and Sports Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland May you never leave your marriage alive. I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Recreation and Sports Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Recreation and Sports
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Recreation and Sports One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Recreation and Sports
"Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Recreation and Sports The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Recreation and Sports
I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Recreation and Sports The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Recreation and Sports
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Recreation and Sports Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Recreation and Sports
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) 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 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 "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Recreation and Sports
A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) 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 Recreation and Sports Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Recreation and Sports
"Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Recreation and Sports "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Recreation and Sports
There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Recreation and Sports "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports
The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Recreation and Sports There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Recreation and Sports
