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"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Recreation and Sports The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Recreation and Sports
"Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens 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
and "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Recreation and Sports And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Recreation and Sports
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan 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" I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Recreation and Sports Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Recreation and Sports
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Recreation and Sports Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Recreation and Sports
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 A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Recreation and Sports Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Recreation and Sports
"Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Recreation and Sports "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Recreation and Sports
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Recreation and Sports "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Recreation and Sports
If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Recreation and Sports The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
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"Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous 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.
-- Crow Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Recreation and Sports "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Recreation and Sports
I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Recreation and Sports We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Recreation and Sports
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Recreation and Sports A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Recreation and Sports
