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"If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
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inspe Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
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-- Anon. Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
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-- George Armstrong Custer Recreation and Sports
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
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- Clarence Darrow, Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
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-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
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-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
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-- Mike Adams Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Recreation and Sports It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
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- W.B. Prescott If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Recreation and Sports
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle 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 Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Recreation and Sports It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Recreation and Sports
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Recreation and Sports The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Recreation and Sports
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
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life Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Recreation and Sports
Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Recreation and Sports
In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Recreation and Sports And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Recreation and Sports
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne 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 Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Recreation and Sports "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Recreation and Sports
Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Recreation and Sports Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Recreation and Sports
