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"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Recreation and Sports Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Recreation and Sports
"To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Recreation and Sports The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Recreation and Sports
Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Recreation and Sports No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Recreation and Sports
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Recreation and Sports History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports
Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm 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 "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Recreation and Sports Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Recreation and Sports
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Recreation and 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 "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Recreation and Sports
"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Recreation and Sports Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Recreation and Sports
If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle "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) Recreation and Sports "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Recreation and Sports
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Recreation and Sports Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Recreation and Sports
Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Recreation and Sports We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports
My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Recreation and Sports When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Recreation and Sports
