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A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Guides and Directories Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Guides and Directories
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Guides and Directories An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Guides and Directories
Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Guides and Directories
Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Guides and Directories The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Guides and Directories
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Guides and Directories Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Guides and Directories
I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Guides and Directories "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories
"There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Guides and Directories
Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Guides and Directories When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Guides and Directories
"You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Guides and Directories Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting "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) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Guides and Directories
The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Guides and Directories Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker 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
"Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Guides and Directories He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Guides and Directories
