"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Guides and Directories blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Guides and Directories
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Guides and Directories Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Guides and Directories
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Guides and Directories
"The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Guides and Directories I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Guides and Directories
"When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Guides and Directories He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Guides and Directories
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland "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 He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Guides and Directories If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Guides and Directories
This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Guides and Directories "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Guides and Directories
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West 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 An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Guides and Directories 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 Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Guides and Directories
There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Guides and Directories "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Guides and Directories
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Guides and Directories Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Guides and Directories
History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Guides and Directories When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
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