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-- Shirley MacLaine The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
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-- Virginia Woolf Recreation and Sports Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
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If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Recreation and Sports One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Recreation and Sports
The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Recreation and Sports If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Recreation and Sports
Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Recreation and Sports The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Recreation and Sports
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Recreation and Sports I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Recreation and Sports
What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Recreation and Sports >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Recreation and Sports
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. 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 "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Recreation and Sports Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Recreation and Sports
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
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Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Recreation and Sports Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Recreation and Sports
"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) "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Recreation and Sports
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 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 flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Recreation and Sports The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
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