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Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Recreation and Sports If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
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"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Recreation and Sports "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Recreation and Sports
Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Recreation and Sports The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
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degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Recreation and Sports
"Think off-center." (George Carlin) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Recreation and Sports I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
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In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Recreation and Sports Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Recreation and Sports
"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Recreation and Sports "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg 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 Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous 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 Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
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When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Recreation and Sports Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Recreation and Sports
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Recreation and Sports "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Recreation and Sports
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Recreation and Sports The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Recreation and Sports
