We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Guides and Directories The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Guides and Directories
"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) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous 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 Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Guides and Directories "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Guides and Directories There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Guides and Directories
We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and 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 The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Guides and Directories Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Guides and Directories
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Guides and Directories And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Guides and Directories
It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Guides and Directories There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Guides and Directories
I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Guides and Directories "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Guides and Directories
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 The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Guides and Directories The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Guides and Directories
I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman "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) Guides and Directories "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Guides and Directories
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Guides and Directories The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Guides and Directories
"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Guides and Directories "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Guides and Directories
