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"Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Guides and Directories "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Guides and Directories
We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Guides and Directories I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Guides and Directories
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Guides and Directories By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Guides and Directories
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Guides and Directories Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories
A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Guides and Directories We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Guides and Directories
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Guides and Directories Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Guides and Directories
"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Guides and Directories Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous 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) Guides and Directories
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Guides and Directories "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Guides and Directories
Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Guides and Directories Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Guides and Directories
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Guides and Directories Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Guides and Directories
"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Guides and Directories Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Guides and Directories
