It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
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assess randomi Recreation and Sports Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Recreation and Sports
I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Recreation and Sports Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Recreation and Sports
The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Recreation and Sports "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Recreation and Sports
Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
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-- W. Somerset Maugham Recreation and Sports "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Recreation and Sports
I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Recreation and Sports "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) 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.
-- Crowf Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Recreation and Sports
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. "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) Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Recreation and Sports When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) 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, We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Recreation and Sports
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Recreation and Sports The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Recreation and Sports
Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Recreation and Sports "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Recreation and Sports
There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Recreation and Sports What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana 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
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 A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Recreation and Sports We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Recreation and Sports
