The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Guides and Directories Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Guides and Directories
Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Guides and Directories Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Guides and Directories
The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Guides and Directories "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Guides and Directories
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Guides and Directories He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Guides and Directories
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Guides and Directories "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Guides and Directories
"Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan "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) Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Guides and Directories Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett 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 "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) 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 There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Guides and Directories You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Guides and Directories
I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Guides and Directories Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe "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) If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Guides and Directories "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories
"It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Guides and Directories "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Guides and Directories
Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong 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 "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Guides and Directories Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Guides and Directories
