Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain "... 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) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues 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 "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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"All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
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-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Recreation and Sports
Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Recreation and Sports Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Recreation and Sports
"Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall 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 It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Recreation and Sports
Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins 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 Recreation and Sports The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein "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 "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Recreation and Sports
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Recreation and Sports Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
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There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Recreation and Sports "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Recreation and Sports
I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Recreation and Sports I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald 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 If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Recreation and Sports Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
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-- Alvin Toffler Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Recreation and Sports
The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Recreation and Sports People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Recreation and Sports
"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Recreation and Sports You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
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-- E. W. Howe Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
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-- Abraham Lincoln Recreation and Sports
