"I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin 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 It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Guides and Directories
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Guides and Directories "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories
"The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Guides and Directories "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Guides and Directories
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 "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Guides and Directories If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Guides and Directories
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Guides and Directories It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Guides and Directories
Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Guides and Directories Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Guides and Directories
"Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) "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 Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Guides and Directories Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Guides and Directories
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Guides and Directories Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Guides and Directories
And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Guides and Directories Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Guides and Directories
Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Guides and Directories "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Guides and Directories
What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Guides and Directories "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Guides and Directories
