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"Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Recreation and Sports "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Recreation and Sports
The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Recreation and Sports You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Recreation and Sports
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce 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 Recreation and Sports When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Recreation and Sports
It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Recreation and Sports Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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 I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Recreation and Sports Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Recreation and Sports
Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Recreation and Sports I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Recreation and Sports
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning My other wife is beautiful. A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Recreation and Sports Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Recreation and Sports
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Recreation and Sports Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Recreation and Sports
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Recreation and Sports 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 "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Recreation and Sports
