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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Guides and Directories He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "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
You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Guides and Directories When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Guides and Directories
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Guides and Directories Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Guides and Directories
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Guides and Directories Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories
A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Guides and Directories blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Guides and Directories "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Guides and Directories
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Guides and Directories A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Guides and Directories
"I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Guides and Directories You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Guides and Directories
Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Guides and Directories Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual 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 "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Guides and Directories The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Guides and Directories
What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Guides and Directories Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Guides and Directories
