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"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Recreation and Sports Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Recreation and Sports
I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Recreation and Sports In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Recreation and Sports
"Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "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) Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson 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 Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Recreation and Sports "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Recreation and Sports
"The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Recreation and Sports "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports
He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Recreation and Sports University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Recreation and Sports
Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Recreation and Sports Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Recreation and Sports
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Recreation and Sports For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Recreation and Sports
then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor 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 "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Recreation and Sports A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Recreation and Sports
"Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Recreation and Sports One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Recreation and Sports
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Recreation and Sports "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde What's new? Most of my wife. Recreation and Sports
"Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Recreation and Sports We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Recreation and Sports
