I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Recreation and Sports "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Recreation and Sports It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Recreation and Sports
"I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Recreation and Sports Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Recreation and Sports
Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Recreation and Sports
My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as 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 Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Recreation and Sports "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Recreation and Sports
The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Recreation and Sports It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Recreation and Sports
"People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Recreation and Sports "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Recreation and Sports He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Recreation and Sports
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Recreation and Sports "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Recreation and Sports
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Recreation and Sports I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Recreation and Sports
The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
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