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Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Skydiving Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Skydiving
Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Skydiving Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Skydiving
Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Skydiving Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Skydiving
>From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Skydiving Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Skydiving
The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire "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) Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Skydiving The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Skydiving
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Skydiving A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Skydiving
Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Skydiving "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Skydiving
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Skydiving What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Skydiving
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Skydiving If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 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 Skydiving
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Skydiving It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Skydiving
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Skydiving For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Skydiving
