If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Recreation and Sports Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Recreation and Sports "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Recreation and Sports
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Recreation and Sports Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Recreation and Sports
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Recreation and Sports 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 Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
"How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President 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 "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) 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 "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "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 We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Recreation and Sports Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Recreation and Sports
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Recreation and Sports
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Recreation and Sports If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Recreation and Sports
"I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Recreation and Sports In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Recreation and Sports
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Recreation and Sports
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Recreation and Sports "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
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