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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry "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) 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 Guides and Directories Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Guides and Directories
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Guides and Directories Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Guides and Directories People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Guides and Directories One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Guides and Directories
Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Guides and Directories "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Guides and Directories
In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Guides and Directories My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Guides and Directories
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Guides and Directories In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Guides and Directories
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Guides and Directories "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Guides and Directories
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 Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Guides and Directories If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Guides and Directories
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Guides and Directories The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Guides and Directories
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Guides and Directories To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
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