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No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Guides and Directories Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
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"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Guides and Directories blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Guides and Directories
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) 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 "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Guides and Directories Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Guides and Directories
"One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Guides and Directories "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Guides and Directories
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Guides and Directories Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
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Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Guides and Directories A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi 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 All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Guides and Directories
You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) 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 We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Guides and Directories
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i 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 Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Guides and Directories For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Guides and Directories
"Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Guides and Directories Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot "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) "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Guides and Directories
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Guides and Directories "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Guides and Directories
Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Guides and Directories Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Guides and Directories
