"In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Recreation and Sports Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Recreation and Sports
The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student 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 You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Recreation and Sports In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Recreation and Sports
"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Recreation and Sports The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Recreation and Sports
Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Recreation and Sports "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Recreation and Sports
In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Recreation and Sports The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Recreation and Sports
"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Recreation and Sports Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Recreation and Sports
Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Recreation and Sports
A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Recreation and Sports If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Recreation and Sports
"So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James "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 I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Recreation and Sports NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Recreation and Sports
"I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Recreation and Sports A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Recreation and Sports
