There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Recreation and Sports Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Recreation and Sports
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Recreation and Sports Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Recreation and Sports
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Recreation and Sports Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Recreation and Sports
"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Recreation and Sports "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Recreation and Sports
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Recreation and Sports Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Recreation and Sports
"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports 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 Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Recreation and Sports
"In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T 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 If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Recreation and Sports You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Recreation and Sports
"Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers 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 This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Recreation and Sports
Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Recreation and Sports It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Recreation and Sports
I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Recreation and Sports The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Recreation and Sports
"Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Recreation and Sports "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Recreation and Sports
