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Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Guides and Directories All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Guides and Directories
We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Guides and Directories "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Guides and Directories
"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) 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 Guides and Directories Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
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"Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) 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 Guides and Directories "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Guides and Directories
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Guides and Directories In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland 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 The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Guides and Directories
"Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Guides and Directories What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Guides and Directories
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Guides and Directories Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Guides and Directories
When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Guides and Directories Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Guides and Directories
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Guides and Directories Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Guides and Directories
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker 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 But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Guides and Directories "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories
"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) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Guides and Directories "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Guides and Directories
