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-- William Hazlitt For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
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-- H. Jackson Brown If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
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Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
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-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
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-- Mark Twain We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
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-- H. L. Mencken Recreation and Sports Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
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Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
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-- James Stephens Recreation and Sports Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
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-- Cass Daley There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Recreation and Sports
I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Recreation and Sports "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Recreation and Sports
Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
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-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
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-- ROBERT FROST "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Recreation and Sports
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
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tha Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
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-- Antonio Porchi Recreation and Sports
My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
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-- Henry Ford Recreation and Sports Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
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the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Recreation and Sports
Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Recreation and Sports In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
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Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
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-- Herbert Spencer He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
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-- Michel de Montaigne Recreation and Sports
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Recreation and Sports Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
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-- Anonymous The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Recreation and Sports
"Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
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-- Charles Caleb Colton Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
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