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"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Recreation and Sports If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Recreation and Sports
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Recreation and Sports You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Recreation and Sports
May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Recreation and Sports Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Recreation and Sports
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Recreation and Sports
Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Recreation and Sports blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Recreation and Sports
Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Recreation and Sports Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
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-- Tom Lehrer 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 Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Recreation and Sports
The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Recreation and Sports Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Recreation and Sports
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Recreation and Sports "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Recreation and Sports
May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Recreation and Sports "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Recreation and Sports
"Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner 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 "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Recreation and Sports
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Recreation and Sports The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen "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
