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"The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Guides and Directories The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Guides and Directories
"Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Guides and Directories "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Guides and Directories
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Guides and Directories There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Guides and Directories
Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Guides and Directories
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Guides and Directories "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Guides and Directories
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Guides and Directories In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Guides and Directories
It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Guides and Directories If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Guides and Directories
The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Guides and Directories Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Guides and Directories
"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Guides and Directories There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Guides and Directories
The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Guides and Directories Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Guides and Directories
It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) 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) Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel 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 Guides and Directories
