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"One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Guides and Directories A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead 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 "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Guides and Directories
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Guides and Directories Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Guides and Directories
"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) [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
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-- Albert Einstein "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Guides and Directories
Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Guides and Directories Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories
Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Guides and Directories Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Guides and Directories
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Guides and Directories Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
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Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Guides and Directories "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller "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) Guides and Directories
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Guides and Directories "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) 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 "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Guides and Directories My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Guides and Directories
"What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Guides and Directories "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
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Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Guides and Directories Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "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 Guides and Directories
