Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West 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 What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Recreation and Sports I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Recreation and Sports
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Recreation and Sports The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Recreation and Sports
"An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Recreation and Sports The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Recreation and Sports
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Recreation and Sports
A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold 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 The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Recreation and Sports
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous "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 Recreation and Sports "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz 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.
-- Crow Recreation and Sports
"Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Recreation and Sports I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Recreation and Sports
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 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 Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Recreation and Sports A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Recreation and Sports
Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Recreation and Sports "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Recreation and Sports
I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Recreation and Sports I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Recreation and Sports Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Whatever you are, be a good one.
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