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Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Guides and Directories "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Guides and Directories
"Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Guides and Directories Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Guides and Directories
And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. 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 One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Guides and Directories If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories
My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Guides and Directories Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Guides and Directories
Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Guides and Directories
"Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Guides and Directories "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Guides and Directories
"Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Guides and Directories "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Guides and Directories
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben "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 "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Guides and Directories "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Guides and Directories
"See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) 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 Guides and Directories Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Guides and Directories
Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Guides and Directories 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Guides and Directories
