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Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman 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 That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Guides and Directories The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Guides and Directories
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Guides and Directories A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller My other wife is beautiful. Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Guides and Directories
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Guides and Directories "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Guides and Directories
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "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) Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Guides and Directories Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Guides and Directories
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Guides and Directories "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories
Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Guides and Directories When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Guides and Directories
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be 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 If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Guides and Directories In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Guides and Directories
"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Guides and Directories If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Guides and Directories
He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus "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) There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Guides and Directories A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Guides and Directories
"He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Guides and Directories
He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Guides and Directories A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Guides and Directories
