Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Guides and Directories "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Guides and Directories
When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Guides and Directories "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Do or do not. There is no try.
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Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Guides and Directories All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Guides and Directories
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Guides and Directories "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Guides and Directories
The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Guides and Directories Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Guides and Directories
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Guides and Directories Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Guides and Directories
Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Guides and Directories Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
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You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Guides and Directories 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 "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Guides and Directories
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Guides and Directories blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories
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 When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) "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) If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Guides and Directories There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Guides and Directories
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Guides and Directories You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Guides and Directories
