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"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet "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 A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Guides and Directories Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Guides and Directories
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories "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) A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Guides and Directories
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Guides and Directories "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Guides and Directories
Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Guides and Directories In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Guides and Directories
If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Guides and Directories Marriage is a rest period between romances. A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Guides and Directories
"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Guides and Directories Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Guides and Directories
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Guides and Directories The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Guides and Directories
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Guides and Directories "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Guides and Directories
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Guides and Directories
The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Guides and Directories All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Guides and Directories
"You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Guides and Directories Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Guides and Directories
