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Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Recreation and Sports I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Recreation and Sports Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Recreation and Sports
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Recreation and Sports Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Recreation and Sports
For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Recreation and Sports "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette 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 have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm 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 The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Recreation and Sports
I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Recreation and Sports For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) 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
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If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Recreation and Sports "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Recreation and Sports
When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Recreation and Sports
"I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Recreation and Sports Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Recreation and Sports
The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Recreation and Sports Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Recreation and Sports
Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Recreation and Sports "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Recreation and Sports
