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Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Recreation and Sports If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Recreation and Sports
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Recreation and Sports
The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Recreation and Sports The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Recreation and Sports
"I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Recreation and Sports "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Recreation and Sports
"Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Recreation and Sports The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Recreation and Sports
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Recreation and Sports Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Recreation and Sports
Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Recreation and Sports I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau 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 Recreation and Sports
Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein 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 The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Recreation and Sports "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Recreation and Sports
If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Recreation and Sports Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Recreation and Sports
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Recreation and Sports Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Recreation and Sports
The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Recreation and Sports
