When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Recreation and Sports We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Recreation and Sports
And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Recreation and Sports The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Recreation and Sports
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Recreation and Sports Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Recreation and Sports
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 Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Recreation and Sports The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Recreation and Sports
Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills 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, Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Recreation and Sports A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
"Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Recreation and Sports Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Recreation and Sports I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Recreation and Sports
We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Recreation and Sports
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo 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 Recreation and Sports "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Recreation and Sports
The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Recreation and Sports "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
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