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"There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Guides and Directories For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Guides and Directories
The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw "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 "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Guides and Directories The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Guides and Directories
The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg 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) "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Guides and Directories I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Guides and Directories
"I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Guides and Directories "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Guides and Directories
"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Guides and Directories The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Guides and Directories
"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Guides and Directories Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Guides and Directories
Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Guides and Directories Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Guides and Directories
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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) People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Guides and Directories The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Guides and Directories
"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) 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 "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Guides and Directories He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Guides and Directories
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Guides and Directories Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Guides and Directories "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Guides and Directories
