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Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Libraries Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Libraries
History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Libraries 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 The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Libraries
Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Libraries The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Libraries
"I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Libraries I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Libraries
Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken 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 don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Libraries "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Libraries
Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 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 It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Libraries No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Libraries
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Libraries Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Libraries
"Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Libraries "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Libraries
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Libraries The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Libraries
blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Libraries No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Libraries
Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Libraries Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Libraries
