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It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Guides and Directories Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Guides and Directories
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Guides and Directories Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Guides and Directories
A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Guides and Directories I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Guides and Directories
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- 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 "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Guides and Directories When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver "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) Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Guides and Directories
I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Guides and Directories The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Guides and Directories
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Guides and Directories blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Guides and Directories
It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Guides and Directories "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Guides and Directories
"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 difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really "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 Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Guides and Directories The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Guides and Directories
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Guides and Directories I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Guides and Directories
"Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle "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) We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Guides and Directories Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Guides and Directories
"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Guides and Directories You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories
