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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Guides and Directories A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Guides and Directories
An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Guides and Directories Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Guides and Directories
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Guides and Directories "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Guides and Directories
I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Guides and Directories "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Guides and Directories
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Guides and Directories Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Guides and Directories
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Guides and Directories I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Guides and Directories
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Guides and Directories Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Guides and Directories
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Guides and Directories Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Guides and Directories
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Guides and Directories "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Guides and Directories
Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Guides and Directories Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Guides and Directories
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Guides and Directories "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Guides and Directories
