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Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost "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) Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Recreation and Sports Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Recreation and Sports
"A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Recreation and Sports It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Recreation and Sports
They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Recreation and Sports Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Recreation and Sports
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Recreation and Sports Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Recreation and Sports
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at "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 And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Recreation and Sports "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Recreation and Sports
And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Recreation and Sports blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Recreation and Sports
I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Recreation and Sports I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Recreation and Sports
"A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Recreation and Sports "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Recreation and Sports
Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Recreation and Sports Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Recreation and Sports
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Recreation and Sports Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Recreation and Sports
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Recreation and Sports Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Recreation and Sports
