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The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Recreation and Sports For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Recreation and Sports
It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Recreation and Sports "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Recreation and Sports
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston "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) Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Recreation and Sports Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Recreation and Sports
"Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Recreation and Sports Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Recreation and Sports
"Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) 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 Recreation and Sports America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Recreation and Sports
It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Recreation and Sports 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
really It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Recreation and Sports
"I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "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 "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Recreation and Sports We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Recreation and Sports
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins 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
to "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Recreation and Sports "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Recreation and Sports
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Recreation and Sports "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) 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 The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Recreation and Sports
There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Recreation and Sports The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Recreation and Sports
My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Recreation and Sports Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Recreation and Sports
