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"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Recreation and Sports Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Recreation and Sports Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Recreation and Sports
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 History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Recreation and Sports "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
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Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Recreation and Sports "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) May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Recreation and Sports
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Recreation and Sports Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Recreation and Sports
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Recreation and Sports "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
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Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Recreation and Sports The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Recreation and Sports
Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Recreation and Sports "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Recreation and Sports
Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber 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 "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Recreation and Sports An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Recreation and Sports
The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Recreation and Sports "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Recreation and Sports
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Recreation and Sports
