When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Guides and Directories We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) 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
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Guides and Directories "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Guides and Directories
"Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Guides and Directories In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Guides and Directories
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone "'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) Guides and Directories The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Guides and Directories
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Spinster: A bachelor's wife. If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Guides and Directories "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
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"Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins "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 Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Guides and Directories
I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup 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 Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Guides and Directories "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Guides and Directories
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Guides and Directories If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Guides and Directories
Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice 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 Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson "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) Guides and Directories
"Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Guides and Directories Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Guides and Directories
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Guides and Directories If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w "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
