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Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Recreation and Sports One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Recreation and Sports
If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Recreation and Sports If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken "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) The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Recreation and Sports
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Recreation and Sports Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Recreation and Sports
In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Recreation and Sports
"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Recreation and Sports blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Recreation and Sports
"People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Recreation and Sports Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Recreation and Sports
Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Recreation and Sports "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Recreation and Sports His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Recreation and Sports
Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Recreation and Sports However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Recreation and Sports
"If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Recreation and Sports If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Recreation and Sports
"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Recreation and Sports With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Recreation and Sports
