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- Georg Lichtenberg When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
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-- Russell Baker Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Recreation and Sports
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
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-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Recreation and Sports No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
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The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
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-- Scottish Proverb "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) I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Recreation and Sports
Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
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-- Jacob Braude The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
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-- ee cummings In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
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-- Fred Astaire Recreation and Sports "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Recreation and Sports
"I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
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-- WARREN BEATTY There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Recreation and Sports What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
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"This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
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-- Bertrand Russell Recreation and Sports Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
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-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Recreation and Sports
"In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Recreation and Sports A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
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car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker 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 Recreation and Sports
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
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-- P. J. O'Rourke A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) "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) Recreation and Sports Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Recreation and Sports Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
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-- Oscar Wilde If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 "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) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Recreation and Sports All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner 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
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Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Recreation and Sports Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo 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 It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
