Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Guides and Directories Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Guides and Directories
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Guides and Directories
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Guides and Directories Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Guides and Directories
blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Guides and Directories He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Guides and Directories
"Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Guides and Directories "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Guides and Directories
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Guides and Directories Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Guides and Directories
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Guides and Directories "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Guides and Directories
What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Guides and Directories Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Guides and Directories
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Guides and Directories "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Guides and Directories
I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Guides and Directories In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Guides and Directories
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Guides and Directories "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Guides and Directories
