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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Guides and Directories If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Guides and Directories
I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Guides and Directories Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Guides and Directories
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Guides and Directories Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Guides and Directories
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Guides and Directories With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Guides and Directories
He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) 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 Guides and Directories Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Guides and Directories
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) 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 The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Guides and Directories "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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 Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Guides and Directories
Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Guides and Directories 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 He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Guides and Directories
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch 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 The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen May you never leave your marriage alive. Guides and Directories "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Guides and Directories
All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Guides and Directories "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Guides and Directories Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories
I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Guides and Directories If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Guides and Directories
