"You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Guides and Directories "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Guides and Directories
"Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Guides and Directories Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Guides and Directories
"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Guides and Directories If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Guides and Directories
The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "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) Guides and Directories "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Guides and Directories
The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Guides and Directories All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Guides and Directories
The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Guides and Directories "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Guides and Directories
You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill 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 Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Guides and Directories "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Guides and Directories
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Guides and Directories I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Guides and Directories
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Guides and Directories If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Guides and Directories
Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Guides and Directories "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Guides and Directories
After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Guides and Directories Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Guides and Directories
