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When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Guides and Directories "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Guides and Directories
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Guides and Directories When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Guides and Directories
My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Guides and Directories I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Guides and Directories
What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Guides and Directories blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Guides and Directories
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Guides and Directories "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Guides and Directories
"I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Guides and Directories He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen 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 Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Guides and Directories
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Guides and Directories Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Guides and Directories
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard 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 Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Guides and Directories Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Guides and Directories
Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Guides and Directories
