What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 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 Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
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Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
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-- Albert Einstein Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Recreation and Sports Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Recreation and Sports
"Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Recreation and Sports "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Recreation and Sports
The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Recreation and Sports When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Recreation and Sports
There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Recreation and Sports Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Recreation and Sports
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Recreation and Sports Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Recreation and Sports
Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Recreation and Sports Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Recreation and Sports
"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Recreation and Sports He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Recreation and Sports
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Recreation and Sports "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan 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 Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Recreation and Sports "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Recreation and Sports
I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Recreation and Sports A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
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