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blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Guides and Directories If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Guides and Directories
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Guides and Directories Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers "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
A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Guides and Directories Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Guides and Directories
We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Guides and Directories "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Guides and Directories
Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Guides and Directories You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl 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 We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Guides and Directories
In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Guides and Directories He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Guides and Directories
Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Guides and Directories Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Guides and Directories In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Guides and Directories
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Guides and Directories The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Guides and Directories
Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Guides and Directories Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth 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 The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Guides and Directories People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Guides and Directories
