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I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Guides and Directories "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Guides and Directories
Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Guides and Directories A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Guides and Directories
We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Guides and Directories All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Guides and Directories
All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler 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 Guides and Directories When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge "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 Guides and Directories
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) "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) Guides and Directories Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Guides and Directories
I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Guides and Directories "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Guides and Directories
"Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Guides and Directories I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Guides and Directories
Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Guides and Directories The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Guides and Directories
"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Guides and Directories Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Guides and Directories
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Guides and Directories "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Guides and Directories
"It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Guides and Directories Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Guides and Directories
