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Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Directories Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Directories
Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Directories "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Directories
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Directories Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (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
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It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Directories The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Directories
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey 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) Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Directories
"I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Directories Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Directories
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Directories blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Directories
If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Directories "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Directories
"Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Directories 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 Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
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Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte 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 If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright 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 Directories Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Directories
A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Directories The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Directories