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Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Guides and Directories Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Guides and Directories
"I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Guides and Directories To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Guides and Directories
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill 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 "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Guides and Directories If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Guides and Directories
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Guides and Directories That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
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You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Guides and Directories "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Guides and Directories
No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Guides and Directories "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Guides and Directories
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha 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 Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Guides and Directories Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Guides and Directories
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp 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.
Guides and Directories Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson "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) Guides and Directories
"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) I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Guides and Directories Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Guides and Directories
History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Guides and Directories Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Guides and Directories
Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Guides and Directories Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Guides and Directories
