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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
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de Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Recreation and Sports This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Recreation and Sports
Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
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-- Molly Ivins Recreation and Sports It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Recreation and Sports
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Recreation and Sports A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Recreation and Sports
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
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-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
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distance The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
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Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Recreation and Sports Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
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In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Recreation and Sports The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Recreation and Sports
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Recreation and Sports If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Recreation and Sports
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
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-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Recreation and Sports Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Recreation and Sports
Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Recreation and Sports No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Recreation and Sports
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Recreation and Sports I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Recreation and Sports
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Recreation and Sports Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports
