Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Guides and Directories Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
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-- Maya Angelou Guides and Directories
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Guides and Directories Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Guides and Directories
They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Guides and Directories If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri 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 "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Guides and Directories
When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Guides and Directories
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Guides and Directories If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Guides and Directories
The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Guides and Directories Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Marriage is a rest period between romances. The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Guides and Directories
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Guides and Directories "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho 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 Guides and Directories
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 It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Guides and Directories "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) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Guides and Directories
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Guides and Directories One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Guides and Directories
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Guides and Directories To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde 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 We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Guides and Directories
"Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Guides and Directories "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
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