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"I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Guides and Directories The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Guides and Directories
"Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Guides and Directories Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Guides and Directories
I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Guides and Directories Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Guides and Directories
"One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Guides and Directories There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Guides and Directories
blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Guides and Directories And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Guides and Directories
"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) The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Guides and Directories "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories
"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Guides and Directories We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Guides and Directories
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Guides and Directories blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Guides and Directories
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Guides and Directories "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Guides and Directories
"Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Guides and Directories Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Guides and Directories
May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Guides and Directories One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Guides and Directories
