"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Guides and Directories Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Guides and Directories
Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Guides and Directories Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem 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 Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Guides and Directories
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Guides and Directories The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Guides and Directories
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Guides and Directories Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Guides and Directories
Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Guides and Directories Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Guides and Directories
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Guides and Directories Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Guides and Directories
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche 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 Guides and Directories When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Guides and Directories
"I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Guides and Directories The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben 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 Guides and Directories
Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Guides and Directories Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
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Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Guides and Directories Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Guides and Directories
"I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Guides and Directories Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde "... 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) Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Guides and Directories
