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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Recreation and Sports What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "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
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Recreation and Sports
"Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Recreation and Sports The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Recreation and Sports
"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Recreation and Sports Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Recreation and Sports
"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) "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 When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Recreation and Sports
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Recreation and Sports I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Recreation and Sports
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Recreation and Sports We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Recreation and Sports
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Recreation and Sports You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Recreation and Sports
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Recreation and Sports Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Recreation and Sports
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Recreation and Sports "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin 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 We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Recreation and Sports
If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Recreation and Sports
