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The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
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- Jimmy Durante "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Recreation and Sports
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Recreation and Sports Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Recreation and Sports
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Recreation and Sports If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Recreation and Sports
The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Recreation and Sports
A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Recreation and Sports The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Recreation and Sports
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" Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Recreation and Sports I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Recreation and Sports
I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Recreation and Sports Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Recreation and Sports
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Recreation and Sports
blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports
The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Recreation and Sports Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Recreation and Sports
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Recreation and Sports Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Recreation and Sports
