"Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
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- Sir Winston Churchill Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Recreation and Sports The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
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ha Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
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-- H.L. Mencken "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Recreation and Sports The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
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-- Wedding Toast Recreation and Sports
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
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-- Anonymous Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
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-- Anon Use your own best judgment at all times.
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-- George Bernard Shaw Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Recreation and Sports Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
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"In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
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-- Clarence Darrow Recreation and Sports Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
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- Art Buchwald If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Recreation and Sports
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
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- Arthur Schopenhauer Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
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-- Anonymous It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Recreation and Sports The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
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- Honore de Balzac "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Recreation and Sports
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
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-- James Holt McGavran A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
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-- Ogden Nash There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
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-- Albert Einstein I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Recreation and Sports To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
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We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
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-- Marcel Achard The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Recreation and Sports May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
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-- Marianne Williamson "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Recreation and Sports
In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
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-- Conway's Law Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
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-- Sydney Smith "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
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-- Arthur Godfrey blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Recreation and Sports
"Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
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-- Virginia Woolf Recreation and Sports "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Recreation and Sports
It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
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-- Damon Runyan A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Recreation and Sports Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
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-- Publilius Syrus Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
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