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"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Guides and Directories Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine "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
"In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields 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 Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Guides and Directories "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Guides and Directories
blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Guides and Directories For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Guides and Directories
We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Guides and Directories Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu 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 Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Guides and Directories
Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Guides and Directories If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Guides and Directories
We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 Guides and Directories Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Guides and Directories
Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos 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 Guides and Directories "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories
The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Guides and Directories Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
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Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Guides and Directories Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Guides and Directories
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Guides and Directories
If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison 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 Guides and Directories Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Guides and Directories
