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"One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Directories Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Directories
Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Directories Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Directories
Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Directories He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) 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 Directories
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Directories As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Directories
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Directories Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Directories
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley 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 Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Directories "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Directories
"The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) 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 Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Directories Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Directories
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Directories The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry 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 Directories
Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Directories The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Directories
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Directories It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Directories
"The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Directories Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Directories
