"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 We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Guides and Directories Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Guides and Directories
A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins 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 "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Guides and Directories
"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) Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Guides and Directories Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Guides and Directories
Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Guides and Directories "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Guides and Directories
"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Guides and Directories All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories
The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Guides and Directories Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Guides and Directories
Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Guides and Directories The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Guides and Directories
In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Guides and Directories "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Guides and Directories
"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Guides and Directories "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Guides and Directories
"Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Guides and Directories "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Guides and Directories
He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Guides and Directories Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Guides and Directories
