"It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez 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 Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Guides and Directories Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Guides and Directories
Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Guides and Directories Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Guides and Directories
Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Guides and Directories History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Guides and Directories
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Guides and Directories Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Guides and Directories
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Guides and Directories .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Guides and Directories
They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Guides and Directories To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Guides and Directories
When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Guides and Directories When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Guides and Directories
"It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Guides and Directories We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Guides and Directories
Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Guides and Directories I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Guides and Directories
Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "... 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) Guides and Directories
Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Guides and Directories He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Guides and Directories
