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-- Wallace Stevens However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
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- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
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-- Bette Davis It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
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-- Aesop There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
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-- Anonymous We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Recreation and Sports The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
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-- Victor Hugo "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Recreation and Sports Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
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-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Recreation and Sports One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
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-- Libby Gelman-Waxner "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Recreation and Sports
"Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Recreation and Sports There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
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-- Robert Francis Kennedy "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
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-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes 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) Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
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-- Elizabeth Ashley Recreation and Sports "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Recreation and Sports
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
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those tiny toil "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Recreation and Sports I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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-- Steven Wright Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
"We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
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-- Clare Boothe Luce The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Recreation and Sports To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
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- James Stephens Recreation and Sports
"I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
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-- Irwin Corey Recreation and Sports Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
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