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"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) 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 one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Recreation and Sports
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Recreation and Sports Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Recreation and Sports Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
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Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Recreation and Sports
Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Recreation and Sports If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
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-- Joan Crawford Recreation and Sports
"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 He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Recreation and Sports
We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "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) The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Recreation and Sports Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Recreation and Sports
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Recreation and Sports
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Recreation and Sports "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
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computer that th "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) Recreation and Sports
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Recreation and Sports Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Recreation and Sports
Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Recreation and Sports Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Recreation and Sports
"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Recreation and Sports Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Recreation and Sports
