If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
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-- Robert G. Ingersoll Recreation and Sports A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Recreation and Sports
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
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-- Niels Bohr The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Recreation and Sports "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
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-- Oscar Wilde A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Recreation and Sports
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Recreation and Sports We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
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-- Richard Mitchell, from "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Recreation and Sports
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
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-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Recreation and Sports "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Recreation and Sports
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Recreation and Sports "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports
A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Recreation and Sports Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
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-- Margaret Thatcher I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Recreation and Sports
They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Recreation and Sports I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
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-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
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-- Groucho Marx Recreation and Sports
"Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? 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 Recreation and Sports The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Recreation and Sports
"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Recreation and Sports "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
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- Frederick (II) the Great Recreation and Sports
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
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-- Socrates Recreation and Sports Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Recreation and Sports
My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
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-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi The less their ability, the more their conceit.
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