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The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Recreation and Sports "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Recreation and Sports
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Recreation and Sports It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
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The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Recreation and Sports Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Recreation and Sports
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Recreation and Sports Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Recreation and Sports
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Recreation and Sports All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Recreation and Sports
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Recreation and Sports We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Recreation and Sports
I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Recreation and Sports
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Recreation and Sports There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Recreation and Sports Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Recreation and Sports
"The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Recreation and Sports Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Recreation and Sports
Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Recreation and Sports "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Recreation and Sports
