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-- Will Rogers To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
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-- Fred Astaire The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
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-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
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-- Helen Keller Recreation and Sports
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Recreation and Sports Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Recreation and Sports
Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur 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 Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Recreation and Sports "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Recreation and Sports
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Recreation and Sports If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson "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) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Recreation and Sports
Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
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-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Recreation and Sports
"The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton 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 Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford 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 Recreation and Sports Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Recreation and Sports
Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
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-- Anton Chekhov Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Recreation and Sports When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Recreation and Sports
At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Recreation and Sports "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Recreation and Sports
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Recreation and Sports When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Recreation and Sports
"The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Recreation and Sports When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Recreation and Sports
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Recreation and Sports "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
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