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blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Guides and Directories One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Guides and Directories
I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Guides and Directories The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Guides and Directories
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Guides and Directories Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Guides and Directories
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Guides and Directories Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 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
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Guides and Directories "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories
CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Guides and Directories He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "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) "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Guides and Directories
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Guides and Directories
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Guides and Directories The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Guides and Directories
"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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 People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Guides and Directories "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Guides and Directories
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Guides and Directories If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Guides and Directories
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Guides and Directories In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Guides and Directories
