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In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Guides and Directories
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Guides and Directories Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Guides and Directories
In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Guides and Directories The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) 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) The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My other wife is beautiful. Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Guides and Directories If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Guides and Directories
When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Guides and Directories
No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Guides and Directories May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Guides and Directories
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Guides and Directories No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "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
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Guides and Directories Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
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Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Guides and Directories
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Guides and Directories A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Guides and Directories
To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess 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 "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Guides and Directories
