Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Guides and Directories Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Guides and Directories
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Guides and Directories Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Guides and Directories
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Guides and Directories The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Guides and Directories
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories 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 "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Guides and Directories
"There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Guides and Directories Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Guides and Directories
Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Guides and Directories "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) In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. "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 Guides and Directories
"God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Guides and Directories When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Guides and Directories
"A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Guides and Directories Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Guides and Directories
"If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Guides and Directories blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Guides and Directories
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Guides and Directories I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso 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 "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Guides and Directories Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Guides and Directories
