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The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Recreation and Sports The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Recreation and Sports
"I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Recreation and Sports 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
as "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Recreation and Sports
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Recreation and Sports The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
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-- Brendon Behan Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
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-- Fran Lebowitz Recreation and Sports
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Recreation and Sports "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team 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. Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. 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 There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
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With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Recreation and Sports Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Recreation and Sports
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Recreation and Sports Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
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over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Recreation and Sports
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Recreation and Sports Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Recreation and Sports
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Recreation and Sports "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Recreation and Sports
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Recreation and Sports Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
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-- Bertrand Russell I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
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-- Robert Orben The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Recreation and Sports "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Recreation and Sports
