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If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cćsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Guides and Directories Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Guides and Directories
"To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Guides and Directories The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Guides and Directories
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Guides and Directories "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Guides and Directories
May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Guides and Directories Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Guides and Directories
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Guides and Directories The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Guides and Directories
Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Guides and Directories "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Guides and Directories
"Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Guides and Directories
Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "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 "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Guides and Directories
"If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Guides and Directories He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Guides and Directories
I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Guides and Directories
"What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Guides and Directories The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Guides and Directories
