Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Guides and Directories Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Guides and Directories
"I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Guides and Directories The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Guides and Directories
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Guides and Directories Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Guides and Directories
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Guides and Directories The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Guides and Directories
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Guides and Directories "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories
When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) My other wife is beautiful. Guides and Directories "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories
"Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Guides and Directories An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Guides and Directories
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Guides and Directories blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Guides and Directories
"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun 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 Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Guides and Directories
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Guides and Directories If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Guides and Directories
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Guides and Directories "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Guides and Directories
