"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Guides and Directories When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Guides and Directories
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 "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Guides and Directories Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Guides and Directories
Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Guides and Directories Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Guides and Directories
We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Guides and Directories Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Guides and Directories
"I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Guides and Directories "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Guides and Directories
The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Guides and Directories Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Guides and Directories
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Guides and Directories Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Spinster: A bachelor's wife. 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 When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Guides and Directories The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Guides and Directories
"Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Guides and Directories "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Guides and Directories
"Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Guides and Directories Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories
Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Guides and Directories
