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The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Guides and Directories Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Guides and Directories
Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Guides and Directories "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Guides and Directories
The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Guides and Directories Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Guides and Directories
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Guides and Directories "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Guides and Directories
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Guides and Directories If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) 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 Guides and Directories
Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Guides and Directories Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Guides and Directories
Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Guides and Directories You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Guides and Directories
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Guides and Directories He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Guides and Directories
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Guides and Directories Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Guides and Directories
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Guides and Directories Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Guides and Directories "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Guides and Directories
