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"The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Guides and Directories "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Guides and Directories
"He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Guides and Directories "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Guides and Directories
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Guides and Directories "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Guides and Directories
There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton "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 It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas 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) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Guides and Directories
It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Guides and Directories Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Guides and Directories
When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Guides and Directories You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Guides and Directories
"People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Guides and Directories Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Guides and Directories
He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Guides and Directories The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Guides and Directories
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Guides and Directories "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Guides and Directories
Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Guides and Directories The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Man and wife make one fool. We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories
