For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Guides and Directories The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Guides and Directories
"Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Guides and Directories The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde 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.
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"As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Guides and Directories I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
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"Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes "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) Guides and Directories "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
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blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Guides and Directories "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Guides and Directories
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Guides and Directories Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. 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 Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Guides and Directories
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Guides and Directories Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Guides and Directories
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 We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Guides and Directories We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Guides and Directories
"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Guides and Directories "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Guides and Directories
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Guides and Directories What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun "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 Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
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