Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Guides and Directories Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Guides and Directories
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais 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 "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Guides and Directories Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Guides and Directories
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Guides and Directories "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) 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
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Guides and Directories We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Guides and Directories
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau "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 I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Guides and Directories As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Guides and Directories
I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch 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 May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Guides and Directories "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed "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) Guides and Directories
"You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford 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 "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Guides and Directories
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara 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
"The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Guides and Directories Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Guides and Directories
I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Guides and Directories You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Guides and Directories
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Guides and Directories "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Guides and Directories
