Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Guides and Directories "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Guides and Directories
There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Guides and Directories And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Guides and Directories
He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) 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 Guides and Directories Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Guides and Directories
"So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's "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." Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Guides and Directories Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Guides and Directories
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Guides and Directories
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 In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon 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 Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Guides and Directories "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Guides and Directories
We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Guides and Directories And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Guides and Directories
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Guides and Directories It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Guides and Directories
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Guides and Directories Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Guides and Directories
"Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Guides and Directories The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Guides and Directories
The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Guides and Directories The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Guides and Directories
