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Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever sea Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. -- T. S. Eliot Guides and Directories His ignorance is encyclopedic - Abba Eban It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a few grains of corn now and then." -- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, The course of true love never did run smooth. -- William Shakespeare Guides and Directories "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. - George Bernard Shaw To love another person is to see the face of God. -- Lyric from Les Miserables America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization. -- George Clemenceau 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 Guides and Directories "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. -- Bob Perelman Guides and Directories Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. -- Anonymous If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. -- Wilfred Sheed Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. -- Oscar Wilde "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. - Henry Louis Mencken Guides and Directories To be able to say how much love, is love but little. -- Petrarch Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life. -- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) What do you take me for, an idiot? - General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Guides and Directories I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. -- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it ha If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? - Will Rogers Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. -- Londo Molari Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. -- Grace Hansen Guides and Directories Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter. -- Anonymous Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. -- Rainer Maria Rilke Logic is in the eye of the logician. - Gloria Steinem Guides and Directories Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass. -- Jane Bryant Quinn I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law. -- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married. -- George Bernard Shaw Guides and Directories "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but th After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. -- Aldous Huxley Guides and Directories Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. -- Thomas Carlyle I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. -- W. C. Fields Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. - Gail Godwin "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today? 1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War. 2) Advising the President. 3) D Guides and Directories The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -- Albert Einstein "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle. -- Marianne Williamson Guides and Directories Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword. -- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. -- Aesop Golf is a good walk spoiled. -- Mark Twain "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators. -- Will Rogers Guides and Directories Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever sea And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be. -- Grandma Moses The child is the father of the man. -- William Wordsworth Guides and Directories "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries. -- Iris Murdoch "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Guides and Directories Remember your dreams. -- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. -- John Stuart Mill Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will. -- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Guides and Directories Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult. -- Charlotte Whitton "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) "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) I hate women because they always know where things are. -- James Thurber In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore: ? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties. ? Work Guides and Directories "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed. -- Beau Brummel "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Guides and Directories A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. -- Fred Allen "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used. -- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. - Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Guides and Directories Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. -- W. Somerset Maugham Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. -- Abraham Lincoln Guides and Directories I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. -- Albert Einstein What luck for the rulers that men do not think. -- Adolf Hitler In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued. -- Helen Rowland A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal. -- George H. Mead It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. -- Henry James Guides and Directories I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again. -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. -- Joseph Addison "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Guides and Directories
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