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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Recreation and Sports Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Recreation and Sports
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Recreation and Sports Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Recreation and Sports
Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Recreation and Sports
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Recreation and Sports Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. 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 Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Recreation and Sports
Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne "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) Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Recreation and Sports It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Recreation and Sports
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Recreation and Sports I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Recreation and Sports
If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Recreation and Sports
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Recreation and Sports "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Recreation and Sports
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Recreation and Sports "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Recreation and Sports
"One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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 We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Recreation and Sports We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Recreation and Sports
Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Recreation and Sports "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Recreation and Sports
