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There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Recreation and Sports Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Recreation and Sports
"Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Recreation and Sports Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Recreation and Sports
"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Recreation and Sports Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Recreation and Sports
To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H 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 Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Recreation and Sports A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Recreation and Sports
blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Recreation and Sports The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Recreation and Sports
There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Recreation and Sports "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Recreation and Sports
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Recreation and Sports Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Recreation and Sports
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 "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Recreation and Sports Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Recreation and Sports
"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) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Recreation and Sports Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Recreation and Sports
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Recreation and Sports "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports
Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Recreation and Sports Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Recreation and Sports
