"Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Directories Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Directories
"Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Directories "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Directories
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Directories Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Directories
"A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Directories He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Directories
Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Directories Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Directories
Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Directories "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Directories
Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Directories Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Directories
When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Directories Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Directories
I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Directories Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Directories
blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Directories Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Directories
When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Directories Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Directories
