I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Guides and Directories "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Guides and Directories
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert 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" If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Guides and Directories The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Guides and Directories
Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Guides and Directories Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories
"I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Guides and Directories If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Guides and Directories
All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison 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 Guides and Directories Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories
Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Guides and Directories Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Guides and Directories
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Guides and Directories "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Guides and Directories
I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Guides and Directories Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Guides and Directories
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Guides and Directories Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Guides and Directories
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Guides and Directories When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Guides and Directories
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 If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Guides and Directories Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Guides and Directories
