Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Guides and Directories Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright 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 They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope 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' Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Guides and Directories
"As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Guides and Directories Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Guides and Directories
Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald 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 Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Guides and Directories "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Guides and Directories
Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Guides and Directories "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Guides and Directories
He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Guides and Directories "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) 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 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 Guides and Directories
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Guides and Directories "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Guides and Directories
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler 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 Guides and Directories Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Guides and Directories
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Guides and Directories The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Guides and Directories
I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Guides and Directories 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 "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Guides and Directories
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Guides and Directories Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Guides and Directories
