During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Recreation and Sports His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Recreation and Sports Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Recreation and Sports
If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Recreation and Sports Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Recreation and Sports
Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Recreation and Sports The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Recreation and Sports "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Recreation and Sports
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Recreation and Sports "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Recreation and Sports
blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Recreation and Sports "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Recreation and Sports
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Recreation and Sports Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Recreation and Sports
The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Recreation and Sports In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Recreation and Sports
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Recreation and Sports Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Recreation and Sports
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Recreation and Sports Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
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