"True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Guides and Directories To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Guides and Directories
"The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff "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) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Guides and Directories A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Guides and Directories
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Guides and Directories
Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Guides and Directories Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
"If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Guides and Directories
"I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Guides and Directories "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Guides and Directories
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Guides and Directories Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Guides and Directories
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "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 I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) 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
If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Guides and Directories The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) What's new? Most of my wife. Guides and Directories
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) "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) Guides and Directories
"Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual "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) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Guides and Directories My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Guides and Directories
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 When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Guides and Directories "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Guides and Directories
