You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man "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 Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Guides and Directories
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" A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Guides and Directories Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Guides and Directories
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Guides and Directories Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Guides and Directories
Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Guides and Directories "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 The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Guides and Directories
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Guides and Directories I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Guides and Directories
Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Guides and Directories I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper 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 Guides and Directories
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Guides and Directories I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Guides and Directories
"Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Guides and Directories It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Guides and Directories
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Guides and Directories 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 No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Guides and Directories
"I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Guides and Directories MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Guides and Directories
Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Guides and Directories "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
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