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A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Recreation and Sports
Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar 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 Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Recreation and Sports If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Recreation and Sports
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Recreation and Sports Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins 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 do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Recreation and Sports
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Recreation and Sports 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 Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
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 blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Recreation and Sports I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Recreation and Sports
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Recreation and Sports
Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Recreation and Sports Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Recreation and Sports
"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder 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 Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Recreation and Sports
"Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Recreation and Sports Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Recreation and Sports
"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Recreation and Sports Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland 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
