"To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
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-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Recreation and Sports "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Recreation and Sports
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
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-- Bertrand Russell Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Recreation and Sports All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
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We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
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-- Albert Einstein Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
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I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Recreation and Sports If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Recreation and Sports
The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
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-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
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-- August Strindberg Recreation and Sports
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
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-- Johann Sebastian Bach "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Recreation and Sports If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
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-- Rita Mae Brown Recreation and Sports
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
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-- 'Doc' Edgerton Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
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-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports Never eat more than you can lift.
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"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Recreation and Sports Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
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-- Alexandre Dumas fils Recreation and Sports
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
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-- Oscar Wilde "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Recreation and Sports
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
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Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
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-- Gloria Vanderbilt A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
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