Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody 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 A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Guides and Directories "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Guides and Directories
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Guides and Directories Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Guides and Directories
I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings 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 Guides and Directories Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Guides and Directories
"Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco 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 a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Guides and Directories The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Guides and Directories
Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Guides and Directories It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo 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 Guides and Directories
The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Guides and Directories I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Guides and Directories
There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Guides and Directories There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell 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
"I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Guides and Directories Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac 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 Guides and Directories
They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous 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 The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Guides and Directories 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, We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Guides and Directories
The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. 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 My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Guides and Directories It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Guides and Directories
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Guides and Directories
