"The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Guides and Directories "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Guides and Directories
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Guides and Directories Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Guides and Directories
"The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Man and wife make one fool. Guides and Directories There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories
Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Guides and Directories "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Guides and Directories
I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "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 The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Guides and Directories The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Guides and Directories
In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Guides and Directories Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "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) "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Guides and Directories
You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Guides and Directories "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Guides and Directories
Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Guides and Directories The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Guides and Directories
"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 To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Guides and Directories Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Guides and Directories
"... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Guides and Directories "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Guides and Directories
The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Guides and Directories An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
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