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myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Recreation and Sports The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
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-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Recreation and Sports
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
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-- John Tudor Recreation and Sports It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
"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) Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Recreation and Sports
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Recreation and Sports Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Recreation and Sports
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Recreation and Sports The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Recreation and Sports
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Recreation and Sports Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Recreation and Sports
"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Recreation and Sports People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Recreation and Sports
"To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Recreation and Sports What's new? Most of my wife. "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Recreation and Sports
That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana "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) Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Recreation and Sports "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Recreation and Sports
Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "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 Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "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) Recreation and Sports When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Recreation and Sports
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Recreation and Sports "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Recreation and Sports
