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Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley 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 Guides and Directories Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Guides and Directories
Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero 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 Guides and Directories "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Guides and Directories
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Guides and Directories Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories
Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Guides and Directories God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Guides and Directories
"I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Guides and Directories I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Guides and Directories
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Guides and Directories Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Guides and Directories
Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Guides and Directories Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Guides and Directories
Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs 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 hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Guides and Directories Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Guides and Directories
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Guides and Directories Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Guides and Directories
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Guides and Directories Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
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"Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Guides and Directories My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Guides and Directories
