Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Directories There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Directories
We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Directories "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Directories
May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Directories "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Directories
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Directories My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Directories
What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Directories I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Directories
The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero "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) Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Directories There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Directories
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Directories Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Directories
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Directories A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Directories
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Directories Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Directories
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Directories If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Directories
The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Directories Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Directories
