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Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Recreation and Sports If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Recreation and Sports
Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Recreation and Sports It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Recreation and Sports
The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports
There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Recreation and Sports Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Recreation and Sports
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Recreation and Sports "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Recreation and Sports
My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Recreation and Sports Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Recreation and Sports
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Recreation and Sports I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Recreation and Sports
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Recreation and Sports There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Recreation and Sports
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports
Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Recreation and Sports "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Recreation and Sports
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Recreation and Sports 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 man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
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