Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Guides and Directories He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Guides and Directories
To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Guides and Directories Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Guides and Directories
If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Guides and Directories He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Guides and Directories
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Guides and Directories "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Guides and Directories
Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Guides and Directories Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Guides and Directories
It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) 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 He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Guides and Directories
It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Guides and Directories We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Guides and Directories
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei "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 Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Guides and Directories The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Guides and Directories
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "... 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) "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Guides and Directories Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Guides and Directories
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Guides and Directories As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Guides and Directories Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Guides and Directories
