Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Guides and Directories "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Guides and Directories
If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Guides and Directories The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford "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 No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Guides and Directories
If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Guides and Directories The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Guides and Directories
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. "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) Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Guides and Directories "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) I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Guides and Directories
"Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Guides and Directories
All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche 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 Guides and Directories It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Marriage is a rest period between romances. Guides and Directories
How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Guides and Directories "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Guides and Directories
They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Guides and Directories Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Guides and Directories No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Guides and Directories
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Guides and Directories I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Guides and Directories
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Guides and Directories The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Guides and Directories
