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A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Guides 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Guides
"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) "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 "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Guides If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Guides
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Guides A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Guides
the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Guides "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
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-- Satchel Paige 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 Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Guides "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Guides
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Guides Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Guides
"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Guides History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Guides
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Guides The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Guides
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) 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 Guides Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Guides
"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. 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 Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Guides "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
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You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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
cr Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Guides "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Guides
