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The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams 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 A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Guides and Directories "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Guides and Directories
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Guides and Directories All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Guides and Directories
Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Guides and Directories "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Guides and Directories
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Guides and Directories My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Guides and Directories
"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Guides and Directories "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Guides and Directories
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Guides and Directories The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories
A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Guides and Directories I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Guides and Directories
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Guides and Directories Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Guides and Directories
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Guides and Directories Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Guides and Directories
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Guides and Directories The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle 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 Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Guides and Directories
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Guides and Directories We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Guides and Directories
