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The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Guides and Directories The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Guides and Directories
"Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Guides and Directories My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
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"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Guides and Directories There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Guides and Directories
Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student 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 The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Guides and Directories Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Guides and Directories
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Guides and Directories The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Guides and Directories
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Guides and Directories There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Guides and Directories
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Guides and Directories
Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Guides and Directories Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Guides and Directories
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm 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 Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Guides and Directories A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff "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) 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 Guides and Directories
"Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Guides and Directories It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Guides and Directories
Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Guides and Directories As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Guides and Directories
