I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Recreation and Sports "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Recreation and Sports
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) 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
chara Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Recreation and Sports To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Recreation and Sports
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Recreation and Sports "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Recreation and Sports
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Recreation and Sports Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Recreation and Sports
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Recreation and Sports A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Recreation and Sports
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Recreation and Sports Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Recreation and Sports
I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Recreation and Sports The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Recreation and Sports
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Recreation and Sports How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Recreation and Sports
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner 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 Recreation and Sports "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Recreation and Sports
A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Recreation and Sports We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Recreation and Sports
"A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Recreation and Sports When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
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