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[You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley 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 There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Recreation and Sports My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Recreation and Sports
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Recreation and Sports There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Recreation and Sports
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Recreation and Sports "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Recreation and Sports
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Recreation and Sports There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen The less their ability, the more their conceit.
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A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Recreation and Sports Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Recreation and Sports "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Recreation and Sports
Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Recreation and Sports
There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Recreation and Sports I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Recreation and Sports "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Recreation and Sports
The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Recreation and Sports "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Recreation and Sports
Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Recreation and Sports "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
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