Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Recreation and Sports Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Recreation and Sports
"I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Recreation and Sports A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
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-- David Mamet Recreation and Sports
Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Recreation and Sports The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Recreation and Sports
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Recreation and Sports I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Recreation and Sports
A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Recreation and Sports "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost 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
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Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins "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) The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Recreation and Sports "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Recreation and Sports
Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Recreation and Sports I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Recreation and Sports
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Recreation and Sports The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Recreation and Sports
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) 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 Unha Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Recreation and Sports Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Recreation and Sports
"The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Recreation and Sports For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Recreation and Sports
"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Recreation and Sports "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
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