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No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Guides and Directories The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Guides and Directories
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Guides and Directories "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Guides and Directories
The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Guides and Directories Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Guides and Directories
"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Guides and Directories There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Guides and Directories
"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) Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Guides and Directories Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Guides and Directories
"I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Guides and Directories If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Guides and Directories
Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Guides and Directories The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Guides and Directories
Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Guides and Directories "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Guides and Directories
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) 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 "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Guides and Directories Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Guides and Directories
"Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer 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 He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill 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 Guides and Directories "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Guides and Directories
"All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "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) Guides and Directories Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Guides and Directories
