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Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Recreation and Sports To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports
"From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Recreation and Sports Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Recreation and Sports
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Recreation and Sports "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Recreation and Sports
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Recreation and Sports Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Recreation and Sports
In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Recreation and Sports blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Recreation and Sports
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Recreation and Sports Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch "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) When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Recreation and Sports Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Recreation and Sports
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Recreation and Sports ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Recreation and Sports
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Recreation and Sports Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Recreation and Sports
His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Recreation and Sports Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Recreation and Sports
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Recreation and Sports The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) 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
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