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"Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Guides and Directories He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Guides and Directories
We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Guides and Directories
"You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Guides and Directories After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Guides and Directories
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Guides and Directories Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Guides and Directories
"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) 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 "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Guides and Directories A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi "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 "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Guides and Directories
Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Guides and Directories
A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Guides and Directories I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Guides and Directories
"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 "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Guides and Directories Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
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No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Guides and Directories the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Guides and Directories
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict "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) "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Guides and Directories "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Guides and Directories
My other wife is beautiful. "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Guides and Directories He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Guides and Directories
