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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. -- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon. - Bill Hirst Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture. -- Aldous Huxley Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. When you're away, I'm restless, lonely Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you are here. -- Samuel Hoffenstein Guides and Directories When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby. -- Nigerian Proverb Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back. - Paul Erdos "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Guides and Directories A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him. -- Elbert Hubbard "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig. -- Anonymous The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. -- ROBERT FROST Guides and Directories Hell is paved with good samaritans. -- William M. Holden There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find." -- Robert Flaherty I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest. -- Alexandre Dumas pere Guides and Directories "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. - Rudyard Kipling Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can. -- Frank W. Woolworth A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. -- Michel de Montaigne The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style. -- Fred Astaire Guides and Directories Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said. -- George Santayana They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them. -- Anonymous The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries. -- Iris Murdoch Guides and Directories Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. -- Red Buttons I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. -- Vincent Van Gogh If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. -- Dale Carnegie An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception. -- Harold Loukes I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Guides and Directories "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) The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l People only see what they are prepared to see. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Guides and Directories Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Napoleon Bonaparte "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. -- Adlai Stevenson The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly. -- Bhagava Gita In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. -- H. L. Mencken Guides and Directories Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. -- Samuel Butler Guides and Directories Golf is a good walk spoiled. -- Mark Twain Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members. -- William Temple To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. -- Robert L. Stevenson He who laughs, lasts. -- Mary Pettibone Poole One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.... -- Robert Boynton Guides and Directories Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions. -- Roger Babson Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies. -- Groucho Marx Guides and Directories "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including: * Both of your socks should always be the same color * Or they should at least both be fairly dark -- Dave Barry There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. -- Gore Vidal Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. -- Will Rogers Guides and Directories It is most unwise for people in love to marry. -- George Bernard Shaw If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all. -- Anonymous Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them. -- Adlai Stevenson Guides and Directories Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one. -- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. - Mark Twain A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you. -- Adlai Stevenson To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written. -- Jean Jacques Rousseau Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. -- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories Prejudice is the child of ignorance. -- William Hazlitt Here's to you and here's to me, and I hope we never disagree. But, if that should ever be, to HELL with you, here's to ME! -- Anonymous More light! -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Guides and Directories And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force. -- Dorothy Parker You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. -- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies. - Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. -- General George Patton "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. - Mahatma Gandhi Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. -- Thornton Wilder The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. -- William James 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 Guides and Directories She felt in italics and thought in capitals. -- Henry James Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. - Benjamin Franklin When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. -- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Guides and Directories "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and the "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Guides and Directories "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) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. -- August Strindberg Guides and Directories
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