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When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Directories Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Directories
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Directories "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Directories
To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "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) By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Directories Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Directories
LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Directories To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Directories
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Directories Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Directories
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Directories "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Directories
"We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Directories "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Directories
Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Directories Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Directories
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Directories "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Directories
Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Directories She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Directories
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Directories blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Directories
