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The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Guides and Directories When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Guides and Directories
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Guides and Directories My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Guides and Directories
"The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Guides and Directories "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Guides and Directories
Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Guides and Directories "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Guides and Directories
"People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Guides and Directories Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Guides and Directories
We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Guides and Directories
You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Guides and Directories When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Guides and Directories
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Guides and Directories
2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer "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 Guides and Directories Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Guides and Directories
"When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene 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 Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Guides and Directories A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Guides and Directories
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Guides and Directories "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Guides and Directories
