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reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Recreation and Sports Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Recreation and Sports
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-- Tom Lehrer If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Recreation and Sports He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
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-- Bernard Baruch "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Recreation and Sports
Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman 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 If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Recreation and Sports
"There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
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-- Guy Almes Recreation and Sports A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Recreation and Sports
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Recreation and Sports Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Recreation and Sports
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Recreation and Sports The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Recreation and Sports
The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Recreation and Sports The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Recreation and Sports
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce "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) "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Recreation and Sports Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Recreation and Sports
Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Recreation and Sports Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Recreation and Sports
If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Recreation and Sports How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Recreation and Sports
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 A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Recreation and Sports "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Recreation and Sports
