Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Recreation and Sports What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Recreation and Sports
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Marriage is a rest period between romances. 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 Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Recreation and Sports The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
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I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Recreation and Sports "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Recreation and Sports
"We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous 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.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Recreation and Sports I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Recreation and Sports
Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard 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 "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Recreation and Sports Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton 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 Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Recreation and Sports
Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Recreation and Sports If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Recreation and Sports
Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Recreation and Sports Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Recreation and Sports
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Recreation and Sports After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Recreation and Sports
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words 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 Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Recreation and Sports I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Recreation and Sports
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige 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 Recreation and Sports The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous 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 We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Recreation and Sports
