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You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Guides and Directories "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Guides and Directories
"How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Guides and Directories Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Guides and Directories
If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Guides and Directories When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Guides and Directories
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Guides and Directories I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Guides and Directories
Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Guides and Directories To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Guides and Directories
"In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Guides and Directories "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Guides and Directories
When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. 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 No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Guides and Directories When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Guides and Directories
The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Guides and Directories Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) 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 Guides and Directories
Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Guides and Directories You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Guides and Directories
Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Guides and Directories The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Guides and Directories
