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The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Recreation and Sports The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Recreation and Sports
Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Recreation and Sports
"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Recreation and Sports
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Recreation and Sports If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Recreation and Sports
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Recreation and Sports Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Recreation and Sports
This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Recreation and Sports blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Recreation and Sports
"One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Recreation and Sports What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Recreation and Sports
Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Recreation and Sports I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Recreation and Sports
Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Recreation and Sports Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Recreation and Sports
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Recreation and Sports Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Recreation and Sports
You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Recreation and Sports To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Recreation and Sports
