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I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Recreation and Sports Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Recreation and Sports
I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Recreation and Sports The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Recreation and Sports
"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Recreation and Sports
For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Recreation and Sports Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "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) Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Recreation and Sports
It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports "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) I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Recreation and Sports
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Recreation and Sports The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Recreation and Sports
The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Recreation and Sports Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Recreation and Sports
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Recreation and Sports We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Recreation and Sports
Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Recreation and Sports Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Recreation and Sports
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and 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 The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Recreation and Sports If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
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Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Recreation and Sports "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Recreation and Sports
