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"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Guides and Directories The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher 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 "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Guides and Directories
In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Guides and Directories The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Guides and Directories
Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Guides and Directories Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Guides and Directories
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Guides and Directories "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Guides and Directories
"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Guides and Directories I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Guides and Directories
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Guides and Directories "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Guides and Directories
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Guides and Directories You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Guides and Directories
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Guides and Directories The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Guides and Directories
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Guides and Directories I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Guides and Directories
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Guides and Directories A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Guides and Directories
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Guides and Directories Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Guides and Directories
