When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Guides and Directories We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Guides and Directories
"Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Guides and Directories "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Guides and Directories
"A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Guides and Directories "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Guides and Directories
I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin 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 Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Guides and Directories If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Guides and Directories
"We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Guides and Directories
"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Guides and Directories Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Guides and Directories
To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Guides and Directories Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer 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 Guides and Directories
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Guides and Directories Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Guides and Directories
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Guides and Directories Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Guides and Directories
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Guides and Directories "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 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 Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Guides and Directories
They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Guides and Directories Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
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