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-- Louise Hay It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
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-- Cicero Recreation and Sports The better part of valor is discretion.
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-- Peter F. Drucker Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
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-- Isadora Duncan There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
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I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
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-- Erich Fromm Recreation and Sports A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Recreation and Sports
The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Recreation and Sports I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
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-- Dean Inge Recreation and Sports There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
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-- Steve Bluestone There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports
"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Recreation and Sports Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
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-- Robert Benchley The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Recreation and Sports
For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
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he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
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Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
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-- Judith Viorst "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Recreation and Sports It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Recreation and Sports
If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Recreation and Sports "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Recreation and Sports
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Recreation and Sports An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
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next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Recreation and Sports
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Recreation and Sports Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
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