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If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Recreation and Sports I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Recreation and Sports
>From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Recreation and Sports The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
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hung Recreation and Sports
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Recreation and Sports "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Recreation and Sports
"I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Recreation and Sports Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
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-- Oscar Wilde If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Recreation and Sports
"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Recreation and Sports "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Recreation and Sports
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Recreation and Sports The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Recreation and Sports
Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying 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 The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
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heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Recreation and Sports May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
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- Henry Louis Mencken Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Recreation and Sports
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Recreation and Sports Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports
Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Recreation and Sports The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Recreation and Sports
"The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) 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 What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Recreation and Sports If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Recreation and Sports
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Recreation and Sports 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 The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Recreation and Sports
