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"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Recreation and Sports "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Recreation and Sports
"Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash "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 Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Recreation and Sports The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Recreation and Sports
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Recreation and Sports We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Recreation and Sports
When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Recreation and Sports I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Recreation and Sports
Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Recreation and Sports "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Recreation and Sports
"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Recreation and Sports Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Recreation and Sports
Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Recreation and Sports "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Recreation and Sports "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Recreation and Sports
Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Recreation and Sports Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Recreation and Sports
I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Recreation and Sports Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Recreation and Sports
He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Recreation and Sports To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
