"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Guides and Directories "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Guides and Directories
"Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Guides and Directories If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from 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 At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Guides and Directories Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Guides and Directories
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Guides and Directories "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Guides and Directories
"Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi ... 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
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Guides and Directories I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Guides and Directories
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) My other wife is beautiful. "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Guides and Directories 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 "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Guides and Directories
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Guides and Directories "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Guides and Directories
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Guides and Directories blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Guides and Directories
The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan 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. Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Guides and Directories Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Guides and Directories
My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Guides and Directories
"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Guides and Directories Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Guides and Directories
