Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Recreation and Sports The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Recreation and Sports
The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair "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." Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Recreation and Sports Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Recreation and Sports
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations 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 Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Recreation and Sports All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Recreation and Sports
A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
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-- Theodore Roosevelt Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Recreation and Sports
"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Recreation and Sports When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Recreation and Sports
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Recreation and Sports "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
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-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Recreation and Sports
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Recreation and Sports What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Recreation and Sports
Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Recreation and Sports "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Recreation and Sports
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Recreation and Sports There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "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 "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Recreation and Sports
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Recreation and Sports Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
