Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Guides and Directories It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Guides and Directories
"Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Guides and Directories We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Guides and Directories
"If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Guides and Directories Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Guides and Directories
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein "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) Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Guides and Directories Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Guides and Directories
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) "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) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Guides and Directories A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Guides and Directories
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Guides and Directories Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Guides and Directories
The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Guides and Directories If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) 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 An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Guides and Directories "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "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) Guides and Directories
A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson 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 Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Guides and Directories A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Guides and Directories
Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Guides and Directories Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Guides and Directories
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Guides and Directories "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Guides and Directories
