When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
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intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
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- Mark Twain I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Recreation and Sports "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Recreation and Sports
"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Recreation and Sports Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Recreation and Sports
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) 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) The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Recreation and Sports "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Recreation and Sports
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Recreation and Sports A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Recreation and Sports
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
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-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein 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 "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Recreation and Sports
"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt "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 Recreation and Sports Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Recreation and Sports
"All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Recreation and Sports Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Recreation and Sports
"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Recreation and Sports A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying 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 Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet 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) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Recreation and Sports The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Recreation and Sports
"Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Recreation and Sports The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Recreation and Sports
