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Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Recreation and Sports "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Recreation and Sports
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Recreation and Sports When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Recreation and Sports
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Recreation and Sports Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Recreation and Sports
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Recreation and Sports Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Recreation and Sports
"Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Recreation and Sports The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Recreation and Sports
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck "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) Recreation and Sports "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Recreation and Sports
"Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Recreation and Sports
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Recreation and Sports Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Recreation and Sports
If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) 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 I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Recreation and Sports We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Recreation and Sports
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Recreation and Sports There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Recreation and Sports
I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Recreation and Sports The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Recreation and Sports
