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Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Recreation and Sports If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards My other wife is beautiful. Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
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When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
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When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
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-- Henry Miller "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Recreation and Sports The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
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I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
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-- Benjamin Disraeli Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Recreation and Sports Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Recreation and Sports
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
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- Moses Hadas in a review Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Recreation and Sports
Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
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-- Seen on a bumper sticker A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Recreation and Sports The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
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-- Stephen Leacock Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Recreation and Sports
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
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-- Dave Barry I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Recreation and Sports If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
"To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
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-- Victor Hugo Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
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-- Peter F. Drucker Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Recreation and Sports A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Recreation and Sports
People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
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-- Virginia Woolf Recreation and Sports The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
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-- Henry Ford "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Recreation and Sports
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... "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 only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Recreation and Sports Only the little people pay taxes.
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-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Recreation and Sports
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
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-- Michel de Montaigne Recreation and Sports
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-- John Wesley The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
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-- Brendon Behan Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Recreation and Sports If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
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