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The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe "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) A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Guides and Directories blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Guides and Directories
The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen "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 The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Guides and Directories Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf 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 If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Guides and Directories
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Guides and Directories We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Guides and Directories
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Guides and Directories When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed "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) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Guides and Directories
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Guides and Directories The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Guides and Directories
"This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Guides and Directories I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Guides and Directories
Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Guides and Directories "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Guides and Directories
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Guides and Directories "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) 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 "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Guides and Directories
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Guides and Directories Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Guides and Directories
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Guides and Directories Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain 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
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He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Guides and Directories Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Guides and Directories
