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The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Recreation and Sports Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Recreation and Sports
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Recreation and Sports Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Recreation and Sports Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Recreation and Sports
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Recreation and Sports "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) Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Recreation and Sports
"It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Recreation and Sports "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Recreation and Sports
Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Recreation and Sports I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Recreation and Sports
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Recreation and Sports Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Recreation and Sports
"Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Recreation and Sports Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Recreation and Sports
Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Recreation and Sports Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Recreation and Sports
We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Recreation and Sports I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Recreation and Sports
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Recreation and Sports 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 "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Recreation and Sports
