The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
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-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
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A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Guides and Directories Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Guides and Directories
Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Guides and Directories Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Guides and Directories
blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Spinster: A bachelor's wife. A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Guides and Directories Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Guides and Directories
Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) We are the echo of the future.
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The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Guides and Directories Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson 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
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If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Guides and Directories Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
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-- Niels Bohr Guides and Directories
If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Guides and Directories "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Guides and Directories
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Guides and Directories The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
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-- Oscar Wilde Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Guides and Directories
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Guides and Directories When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
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- George Washington Carver To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Guides and Directories
I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Guides and Directories Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Guides and Directories
