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"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Recreation and Sports Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Recreation and Sports "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Recreation and Sports
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Recreation and Sports Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Recreation and Sports
"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Recreation and Sports The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Recreation and Sports
Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Recreation and Sports "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Recreation and Sports
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Recreation and Sports
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Recreation and Sports The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Recreation and Sports
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Recreation and Sports Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder 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 Recreation and Sports
To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Recreation and Sports
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Recreation and Sports Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Recreation and Sports
My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
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