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The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Guides and Directories He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Guides and Directories
"Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Guides and Directories You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Guides and Directories
Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings 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 "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Guides and Directories Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Guides and Directories
"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Guides and Directories However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Guides and Directories
He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Guides and Directories Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Guides and Directories
"Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Guides and Directories What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Guides and Directories
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Guides and Directories "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Guides and Directories
When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Guides and Directories "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain 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 Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Guides and Directories
There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Guides and Directories A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Guides and Directories
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Guides and Directories Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Guides and Directories
