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The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Guides and Directories In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Guides and Directories
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) 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) We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Guides and Directories
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Guides and Directories
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Guides and Directories "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Guides and Directories
If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Guides and Directories Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories
"God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Guides and Directories We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Guides and Directories
Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Guides and Directories We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Guides and Directories
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Guides and Directories "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Guides and Directories
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 It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Guides and Directories The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Guides and Directories
It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Guides and Directories The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Guides and Directories
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Guides and Directories Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Guides and Directories
