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A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Guides and Directories "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Guides and Directories
The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Guides and Directories Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Guides and Directories
Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Guides and Directories "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Guides and Directories
I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. 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 Guides and Directories "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Guides and Directories
By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Guides and Directories I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Guides and Directories
If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Guides and Directories It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Guides and Directories
"I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy 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 Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Guides and Directories
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Guides and Directories "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 In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Guides and Directories
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Guides and Directories "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) I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Guides and Directories
Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Guides and Directories I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Guides and Directories
Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Guides and Directories The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Guides and Directories
