An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Recreation and Sports Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Recreation and Sports
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Recreation and Sports Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Recreation and Sports
Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Recreation and Sports Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports
I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Recreation and Sports "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Recreation and Sports
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Recreation and Sports "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Recreation and Sports
Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Recreation and Sports We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Recreation and Sports
Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Recreation and Sports The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Recreation and Sports
War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Recreation and Sports
The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford 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 Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Recreation and Sports blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Recreation and Sports
I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Recreation and Sports With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Recreation and Sports
The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Recreation and Sports My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Recreation and Sports
