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"Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Guides and Directories Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Guides and Directories
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Guides and Directories Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Guides and Directories
"All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Guides and Directories Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Guides and Directories
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Guides and Directories Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Guides and Directories
"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Guides and Directories While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Guides and Directories
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Guides and Directories How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone 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 Guides and Directories
I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Guides and Directories If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Guides and Directories
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Guides and Directories
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides 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 Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Guides and Directories The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Guides and Directories
"In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Guides and Directories 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 "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Guides and Directories
Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Guides and Directories A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Guides and Directories
