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We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "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) "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Guides and Directories The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "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 Guides and Directories
May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Guides and Directories blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories
Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Guides and Directories "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Guides and Directories
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Guides and Directories Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Guides and Directories
Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Guides and Directories We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford 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 He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Guides and Directories
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Guides and Directories The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Guides and Directories
Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Guides and Directories "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Guides and Directories
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 The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Guides and Directories The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Guides and Directories
"Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Guides and Directories The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Guides and Directories
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str "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 Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Guides and Directories "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Guides and Directories
"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) Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Guides and Directories Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "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) Guides and Directories
