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blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Guides and Directories "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Guides and Directories
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Guides and Directories The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Guides and Directories
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
"Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Guides and Directories Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Guides and Directories You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Guides and Directories
ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett "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 There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Guides and Directories What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Guides and Directories
Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Guides and Directories "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Guides and Directories
I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Guides and Directories Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Guides and Directories
I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Guides and Directories Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Guides and Directories
"I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow 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 If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Guides and Directories There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde 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 Guides and Directories
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 It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Guides and Directories Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Guides and Directories
"The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Guides and Directories The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Guides and Directories
