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All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) Guides and Directories Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Guides and Directories
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Guides and Directories Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Guides and Directories
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Guides and Directories "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Guides and Directories
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-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Guides and Directories A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Guides and Directories
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Guides and Directories I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Guides and Directories
Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous 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 Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Guides and Directories Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Guides and Directories
"Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Guides and Directories "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Guides and Directories
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Guides and Directories My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Guides and Directories
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Guides and Directories Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Guides and Directories
"I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi 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 Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Guides and Directories The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Guides and Directories
I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Guides and Directories "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan "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) Guides and Directories
