Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
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-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
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"Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
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-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
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-- Sacha Guitry Recreation and Sports "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
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-- Theodore Roosevelt It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Recreation and Sports The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
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-- We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
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-- Cybi This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
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-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
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-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Recreation and Sports He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Recreation and Sports
If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
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-- Joseph Addison "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
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- Mahatma Gandhi There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Recreation and Sports
All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
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bre Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
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-- Kelvin Throop I Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
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-- Epicurus The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Recreation and Sports
Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Recreation and Sports I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
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- Frank Lloyd Wright Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Recreation and Sports
Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
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-- Guy Almes "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
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-- Dean Inge "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Recreation and Sports "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Recreation and Sports
"Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Recreation and Sports I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Recreation and Sports
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Recreation and Sports "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Recreation and Sports
Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
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-- George Carlin The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
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-- Dag Hammarskjold Recreation and Sports Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
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