"There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
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-- Giraudoux Recreation and Sports "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
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Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Recreation and Sports I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
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-- Ed Bluestone When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
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-- Malcolm Forbes "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Recreation and Sports
"To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Recreation and Sports Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
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Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson 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 To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Recreation and Sports "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
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-- James Lowell Recreation and Sports "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton The child is the father of the man.
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-- Oscar Levant No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Recreation and Sports "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) I am not young enough to know everything.
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"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
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Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
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-- Kant, Immanuel I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
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-- Molly Ivins Recreation and Sports
"Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
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If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
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-- Henry Ford Recreation and Sports "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' Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
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There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
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-- Martin Mull All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
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-- Anon. Recreation and Sports Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
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-- Albert Einstein I could prove God statistically.
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