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A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Guides and Directories
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Guides and Directories One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Guides and Directories
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins 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 Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Guides and Directories
Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Guides and Directories "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Guides and Directories
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Guides and Directories A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Guides and Directories
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Guides and Directories Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Guides and Directories
To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Guides and Directories Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Guides and Directories
If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. 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,
These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Guides and Directories "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Guides and Directories
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Guides and Directories Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Guides and Directories
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Guides and Directories Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Guides and Directories
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Guides and Directories Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth "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) I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Guides and Directories
