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"The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Recreation and Sports "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln "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) Recreation and Sports
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Recreation and Sports "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Recreation and Sports
If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Recreation and Sports The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Recreation and Sports
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Recreation and Sports This book fills a much-needed gap.
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-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Recreation and Sports
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Recreation and Sports If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Recreation and Sports
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Recreation and Sports "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
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Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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 "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Recreation and Sports Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Recreation and Sports
The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Recreation and Sports "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Recreation and Sports
"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) Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Recreation and Sports When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Recreation and Sports
I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Recreation and Sports The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Recreation and Sports
Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Recreation and Sports Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Recreation and Sports
