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"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Guides and Directories We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Guides and Directories
Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Guides and Directories Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Guides and Directories
When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Guides and Directories Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Guides and Directories
"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Guides and Directories "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Guides and Directories
I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Guides and Directories "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Guides and Directories
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Guides and Directories Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte 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. "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Guides and Directories
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Guides and Directories "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Guides and Directories
"...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Guides and Directories Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Guides and Directories
I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Guides and Directories "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) Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Guides and Directories
Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Guides and Directories It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Guides and Directories
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Guides and Directories When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories
