"A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Recreation and Sports "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
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Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers 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 Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Recreation and Sports The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Recreation and Sports
Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
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-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
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is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Recreation and Sports It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
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-- Ernest Dimnet The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Recreation and Sports
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Recreation and Sports It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
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May you never leave your marriage alive. Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
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-- Frank W. Woolworth I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Recreation and Sports Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Recreation and Sports
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Recreation and Sports A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
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-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Recreation and Sports
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
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-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Recreation and Sports A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Recreation and Sports
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Recreation and Sports All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
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"Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
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-- Alfred Hitchcock If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Recreation and Sports "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
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-- Tom Lehrer If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
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Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
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-- Shirley Temple Black "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Recreation and Sports I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Victory belongs to the most persevering.
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