"When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Guides and Directories "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Guides and Directories
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne 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 "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Guides and Directories Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Guides and Directories
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories
"Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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 If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Guides and Directories Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Guides and Directories
I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Guides and Directories "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "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) "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Guides and Directories
"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) You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein "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) Guides and Directories "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Guides and Directories
Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Guides and Directories blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Guides and Directories
"How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Guides and Directories A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein 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.
-- Sacha Guitry The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies 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 The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Guides and Directories "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Guides and Directories
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Guides and Directories Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Guides and Directories
I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Guides and Directories I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Guides and Directories
