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-- Anonymous If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
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-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Recreation and Sports
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois 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 Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
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-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Recreation and Sports Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
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-- Sigmund Freud "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Recreation and Sports
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Recreation and Sports Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Recreation and Sports
We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz "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) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Recreation and Sports "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..." ( An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Recreation and Sports
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Recreation and Sports The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
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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 Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Recreation and Sports When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson 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 Recreation and Sports
The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous 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 We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Recreation and Sports Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Recreation and Sports
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Recreation and Sports "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Recreation and Sports
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous 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 "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Recreation and Sports The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Recreation and Sports
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Recreation and Sports "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Recreation and Sports
His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Recreation and Sports Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Recreation and Sports
