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Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Man and wife make one fool. My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Recreation and Sports Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Recreation and Sports
The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Recreation and Sports blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Recreation and Sports
Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) 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 Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Recreation and Sports
Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "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) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Recreation and Sports Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Recreation and Sports
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Recreation and Sports Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Recreation and Sports
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Recreation and Sports Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Recreation and Sports
The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Recreation and Sports Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Recreation and Sports
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Recreation and Sports Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Recreation and Sports
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Recreation and Sports "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Recreation and Sports
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon 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 What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Recreation and Sports "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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 Recreation and Sports
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Recreation and Sports "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Recreation and Sports
