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If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger "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." Recreation and Sports The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Spinster: A bachelor's wife. blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Recreation and Sports
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Recreation and Sports blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Recreation and Sports
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Recreation and Sports One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Recreation and Sports
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Recreation and Sports A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Recreation and Sports 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 The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Recreation and Sports
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Recreation and Sports Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
"Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Recreation and Sports Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Recreation and Sports
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Recreation and Sports I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Recreation and Sports
I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Recreation and Sports
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Recreation and Sports
"It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Recreation and Sports Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Recreation and Sports
