If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Recreation and Sports Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
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-- Oscar Wilde "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Recreation and Sports
It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Recreation and Sports Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Recreation and Sports
My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Recreation and Sports When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
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-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Recreation and Sports
"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 Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Recreation and Sports Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Recreation and Sports
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Recreation and Sports Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Recreation and Sports
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Recreation and Sports "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Recreation and Sports
We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje 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 I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Recreation and Sports Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
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"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Recreation and Sports A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Recreation and Sports
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton 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 Recreation and Sports You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
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When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Recreation and Sports Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Recreation and Sports
"When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "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) Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Recreation and Sports "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
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