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Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Guides and Directories Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Guides and Directories "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "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) Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Guides and Directories
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 I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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) They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Guides and Directories
Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Guides and Directories Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV "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 Guides and Directories
Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Guides and Directories "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Guides and Directories
Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous 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 When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Guides and Directories The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Guides and Directories
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Guides and Directories "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Guides and Directories
In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Guides and Directories The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Guides and Directories
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 is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Guides and Directories A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Guides and Directories
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Guides and Directories Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Guides and Directories
Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Guides and Directories Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Guides and Directories
