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May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Recreation and Sports 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 blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
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Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Recreation and Sports "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Recreation and Sports
Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Recreation and Sports The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Recreation and Sports Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Recreation and Sports
"Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Recreation and Sports The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Recreation and Sports What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Recreation and Sports
"Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Recreation and Sports Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Recreation and Sports
The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Recreation and Sports It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Recreation and Sports
Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Recreation and Sports I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Recreation and Sports
Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Recreation and Sports A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Recreation and Sports
"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Recreation and Sports
