"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Guides and Directories "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 Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Guides and Directories
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green "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 The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Guides and Directories
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Guides and Directories If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Guides and Directories
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Guides and Directories I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Guides and Directories
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Guides and Directories When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Guides and Directories
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur "'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, Through the Looking Glass) "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Guides and Directories If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Guides and Directories
Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo 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 In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Guides and Directories "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Guides and Directories
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Guides and Directories To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Guides and Directories Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Guides and Directories
Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Guides and Directories Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Guides and Directories
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee 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 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 Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Guides and Directories Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Guides and Directories
