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The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Recreation and Sports Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara "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
I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Recreation and Sports I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Recreation and Sports
Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Recreation and Sports Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Recreation and Sports
In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Recreation and Sports
The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Recreation and Sports "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Recreation and Sports
You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Recreation and Sports Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Recreation and Sports
"Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) 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 "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Recreation and Sports "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Recreation and Sports
Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens "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) I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Recreation and Sports "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Recreation and Sports
Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Recreation and Sports Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Recreation and Sports
"Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Recreation and Sports Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Recreation and Sports
The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire 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 The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Recreation and Sports In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
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