"These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Guides and Directories "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Guides and Directories
Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Guides and Directories "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Guides and Directories
Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Guides and Directories Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Guides and Directories
"I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Guides and Directories "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Guides and Directories
Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller "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) "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Guides and Directories Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Guides and Directories
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Guides and Directories blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Guides and Directories
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Guides and Directories Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Guides and Directories
"The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Guides and Directories If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Guides and Directories
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx "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 The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Guides and Directories
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Guides and Directories Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Guides and Directories
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Guides and Directories "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe 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 Guides and Directories
