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Seaham Unaligned Literary and Philosophical Association - A forum for local presentation of historical and social issues, without reference to political premises. Includes local history, folk tales and ghost stories relating to the town.
blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Recreation and Sports An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Recreation and Sports Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Recreation and Sports
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Recreation and Sports Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Recreation and Sports
"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Recreation and Sports The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Recreation and Sports "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports
"A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Recreation and Sports The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Recreation and Sports
Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) 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 I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Recreation and Sports I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Recreation and Sports
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Recreation and Sports It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Recreation and Sports Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Recreation and Sports
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Recreation and Sports "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Recreation and Sports "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) There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Recreation and Sports
