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Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Guides and Directories Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Guides and Directories
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Guides and Directories Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Guides and Directories
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Guides and Directories 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 "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) There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Guides and Directories
I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali 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 Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Guides and Directories "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Guides and Directories
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Guides and Directories Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Guides and Directories
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Guides and Directories Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Guides and Directories
I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Guides and Directories "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Guides and Directories
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Guides and Directories Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Guides and Directories
blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Guides and Directories Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories
"Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Guides and Directories Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Guides and Directories
Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Guides and Directories A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Guides and Directories
