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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 "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
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comple Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Recreation and Sports
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-- Anon. Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
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-- Rita Rudner 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
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
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-- G. K. Chesterton Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Recreation and Sports Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
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-- Bierce, A I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Recreation and Sports
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
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-- ROBERT FROST They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
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-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Recreation and Sports "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Recreation and Sports
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 "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Recreation and Sports The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
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-- Groucho Marx Recreation and Sports
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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attitudes of mind.
-- William James Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Recreation and Sports "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports
"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
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-- Moliere Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
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--Loesje My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Recreation and Sports
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
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-- Mark B. Cohen Recreation and Sports
"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Recreation and Sports Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Recreation and Sports
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Recreation and Sports There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
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-- Martin Luther Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Recreation and Sports
Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Recreation and Sports Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Recreation and Sports
