"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Recreation and Sports Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Recreation and Sports
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Recreation and Sports What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Recreation and Sports
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Recreation and Sports Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Recreation and Sports
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Recreation and Sports Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Recreation and Sports
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Recreation and Sports Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) 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 Recreation and Sports
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Recreation and Sports Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Recreation and Sports
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Recreation and Sports "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
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Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Recreation and Sports Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Recreation and Sports
"To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Recreation and Sports In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Recreation and Sports
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Recreation and Sports Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Recreation and Sports
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Recreation and Sports Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Recreation and Sports
