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-- Aesop This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
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-- Will Rogers Recreation and Sports
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-- John Powell Recreation and Sports
If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
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-- H.L. Mencken 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
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-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Work is a four-letter word.
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-- P. J Recreation and Sports
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
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-- John F. Kennedy The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
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-- Woody Allen Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Recreation and Sports The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
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- Andrew Marvell Recreation and Sports
"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
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Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
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-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
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-- Dr. Karl Menninger Recreation and Sports
Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
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-- Henry Ford The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
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-- Rodney Dangerfield Recreation and Sports The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
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-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
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Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
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-- Groucho Marx The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Recreation and Sports
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
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-- Heywood Brown "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Recreation and Sports A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
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-- Fred Allen The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Recreation and Sports
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
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-- Unknown history student The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
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