What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning 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 They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Guides and Directories A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Guides and Directories
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Guides and Directories Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Guides and Directories
When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Guides and Directories Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Guides and Directories
One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Guides and Directories Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) 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 Guides and Directories
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Guides and Directories "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Guides and Directories
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) 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 want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Guides and Directories Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Guides and Directories
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Guides and Directories If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Guides and Directories
"The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Guides and Directories Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov "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 "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Guides and Directories
blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Guides and Directories A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Guides and Directories
The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Guides and Directories Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Guides and Directories
It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) 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 Guides and Directories "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Guides and Directories
