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For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Guides and Directories My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Guides and Directories
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Guides and Directories "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Guides and Directories
"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Guides and Directories Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Guides and Directories
blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Guides and Directories I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Guides and Directories
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Guides and Directories If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Guides and Directories
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland 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 When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Guides and Directories A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Guides and Directories
blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Guides and Directories The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Guides and Directories
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley 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 A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Guides and Directories Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Guides and Directories
Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Guides and Directories "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Guides and Directories
I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Guides and Directories "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Guides and Directories
"See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Guides and Directories "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Guides and Directories
