I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Recreation and Sports Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Recreation and Sports I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Recreation and Sports
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "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) "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Recreation and Sports Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Recreation and Sports
"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 Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Recreation and Sports Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Recreation and Sports
Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Recreation and Sports
As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Recreation and Sports There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Recreation and Sports
I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
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 Recreation and Sports You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Recreation and Sports
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Recreation and Sports Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Recreation and Sports
"The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports
Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Recreation and Sports I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Recreation and Sports
The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Recreation and Sports 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 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 "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Recreation and Sports
