A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
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-- Winston Churchill Recreation and Sports
There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
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-- Tom Robbins "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke 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' All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
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Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
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-- Robert Frost Recreation and Sports The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
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The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
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the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink My good intentions are completely lethal.
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-- Elvis Presley Recreation and Sports "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve To love another person is to see the face of God.
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"We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
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-- G. K. Chesterton Recreation and Sports Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
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-- Jonson, Ben Recreation and Sports
God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
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deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H ...the fog is rising.
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Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) I still live.
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Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
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-- George bernard Shaw It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) 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 Recreation and Sports Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
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After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
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be When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
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-- Benjamin Disraeli See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Recreation and Sports
"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
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