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In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Guides and Directories A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Guides and Directories
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Guides and Directories >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Guides and Directories "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Guides and Directories
"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Guides and Directories Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Guides and Directories
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Guides and Directories The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Guides and Directories
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Guides and Directories "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 Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Guides and Directories
Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Guides and Directories "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories
"If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) 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 "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Guides and Directories
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Guides and Directories "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Guides and Directories
Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Guides and Directories The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch 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 Guides and Directories
"The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern 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 A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Guides and Directories "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." 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 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
