Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Water Sports "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Water Sports
Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
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also the m Water Sports There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Water Sports
A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Water Sports 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 Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
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-- Orison Swett Marden The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Water Sports
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) 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 "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) 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 Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Water Sports With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer "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) It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Water Sports
"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Water Sports "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Water Sports
He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Water Sports How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Water Sports
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) 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 I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Water Sports Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Water Sports
Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Water Sports There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Water Sports
Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius 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 Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Water Sports The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
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-- Colin Wilson Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Water Sports
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Water Sports I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Water Sports
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "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) Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Water Sports "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) Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
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