Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Recreation and Sports "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." I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Recreation and Sports
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Recreation and Sports An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Recreation and Sports
To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Recreation and Sports You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Recreation and Sports
"Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Recreation and Sports Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Recreation and Sports "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Recreation and Sports
Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Recreation and Sports No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland 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
"Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Recreation and Sports However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Recreation and Sports
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Recreation and Sports "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Recreation and Sports
Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Recreation and Sports A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Recreation and Sports
It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Recreation and Sports The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein "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) Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Recreation and Sports
What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Recreation and Sports In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Recreation and Sports
