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"Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "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 Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Guides and Directories Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Guides and Directories
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Guides and Directories I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Guides and Directories
MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Guides and Directories Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Guides and Directories
I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Guides and Directories Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Guides and Directories
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Guides and Directories "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Guides and Directories
"Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Guides and Directories In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Guides and Directories
"Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Guides and Directories Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Guides and Directories
"I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- 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.
"Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Guides and Directories The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Guides and Directories
Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Guides and Directories Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Guides and Directories
Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Guides and Directories Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Guides and Directories
In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Guides and Directories "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Guides and Directories
