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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Recreation and Sports No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Recreation and Sports
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "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) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Recreation and Sports
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Recreation and Sports "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Recreation and Sports
In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Recreation and Sports
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 If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Recreation and Sports Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Recreation and Sports
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Recreation and Sports A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Recreation and Sports The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Recreation and Sports
Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Recreation and Sports Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Recreation and Sports
The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Recreation and Sports "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) 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 None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Recreation and Sports
The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Recreation and Sports "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Recreation and Sports
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Recreation and Sports The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Recreation and Sports
