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Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Recreation and Sports "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Recreation and Sports
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Recreation and Sports
"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
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-- Jacob Braude "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Recreation and Sports "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Recreation and Sports
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Recreation and Sports
I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed 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 Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Recreation and Sports All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Recreation and Sports
"We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Recreation and Sports Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
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We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Recreation and Sports To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Recreation and Sports
"Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Recreation and Sports Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Recreation and Sports
The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Recreation and Sports Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Recreation and Sports
Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Recreation and Sports Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Recreation and Sports "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
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