The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Guides and Directories It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Guides and Directories
Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Guides and Directories "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Guides and Directories
"Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Guides and Directories Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Guides and Directories
I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Guides and Directories God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Guides and Directories
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Guides and Directories
Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Guides and Directories "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Guides and Directories
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke 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 It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Guides and Directories You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Guides and Directories
"The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Guides and Directories "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Guides and Directories
Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Guides and Directories If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Guides and Directories
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker 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 Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Guides and Directories When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) 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 Guides and Directories
I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Guides and Directories I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Guides and Directories
