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 We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Guides and Directories Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Guides and Directories
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Guides and Directories The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell 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, As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Guides and Directories
Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Guides and Directories The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Guides and Directories
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Guides and Directories Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Guides and Directories
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Guides and Directories Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Guides and Directories
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Guides and Directories "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Guides and Directories
Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Guides and Directories Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Guides and Directories
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Guides and Directories Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Guides and Directories
A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Guides and Directories "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Guides and Directories
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 "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov "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) Guides and Directories blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Guides and Directories We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Guides and Directories
