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It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous 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 He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Recreation and Sports "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Recreation and Sports
All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Recreation and Sports Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Recreation and Sports
"The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz "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) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Recreation and Sports Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Recreation and Sports
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Recreation and Sports "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Recreation and Sports
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Recreation and Sports What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Recreation and Sports
"God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry 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 It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports
"I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Recreation and Sports The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Recreation and Sports
"Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Recreation and Sports Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Recreation and Sports
I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Recreation and Sports In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Recreation and Sports
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Recreation and Sports 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 think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Recreation and Sports
An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Recreation and Sports
