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disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Recreation and Sports The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Recreation and Sports
There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Recreation and Sports "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Recreation and Sports
The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Recreation and Sports "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Recreation and Sports
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 Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Recreation and Sports Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Recreation and Sports
I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Recreation and Sports 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 In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Recreation and Sports
"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Recreation and Sports Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Recreation and Sports
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Recreation and Sports If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Recreation and Sports
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Recreation and Sports The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Recreation and Sports
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Recreation and Sports "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) 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 A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Recreation and Sports
"We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Recreation and Sports "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Recreation and Sports
"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Recreation and Sports "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) Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Recreation and Sports
